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This is off topic but probably of interest:

I have just read an article in The New York Evening Telegram of December 2, 1917, which mentions the exhibition of "the Bettini moving picture plate, an invention not yet on the market." Gianni Bettini, resident in Paris, attended. Among the bystanders was no less a figure than Enrico Caruso! Bettini had received US Patent 1,242,416 for "Plate and Plate-Holder for Moving-Picture Apparatus" on October 9, 1917.

I've read about this once..I think he had some sort of device that took a series of pictures...like a movie moving and then printed them on a sheet of stills ...as a sort of novelty device. I've seen a series of images of Bettini smoking a cigar.I think I've seen a series of pics of Caruso too.

bettini had a real super flop on his hand with that invention it was cumberson to operate and he came out with the patent in the middle of the first world war the pioneering genious of the phongraph world made a real boo-boo with this one


tino