Agfa motion picture topics (Apr 1937-June 1940)

'T'his year American photography celebrates its one hundredth birthday. In hut three years more the Agfa Ansco Corporation, too, will celebrate its centennial — the oldest American maunfacturer of a complete line of photographic equipment. The intervening century is a romantic saga of photographic pioneering, liberally studded with “firsts” — pioneer achievements which have become milestones in the history of photography. The story properly opens even before that momentous sixth of February, 1839, when Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre made the first public announcement of his Dauguerreotype process. Some time before this announcement, an American artist resident in Paris visited the French A — Film Plant B — Research and Administration inventor and became an enthusiastic Daguerrean photographer. This artist was himself something on an inventor — his visit to Paris was for the purpose of patenting his own invention, an electric telegraph — b u t photographers in general and Hollywood in particular should honor Samuel F. B. M orse as the man who first brought photography to America. One of the first Americans to learn the Daguerrean art from Morse was a young Columbia University graduate. Edward A. Anthony, who became one of the first amateur photographers in America. In college he had specialized in mathematics and engineering, and he quickly became an expert photographer. \\ ith proficiency came the typical Yankee urge to turn his 6