The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-29
AUDO-MOTO-PHOTO
New Invention for the Nov ing Picture Business
 Reproduction of Sounds

San Francisco, Jan. 29-Possessed of
 secret that promises to revoIutionize
 world, half a dozen San Franciscans,
 associated in a modest syndicate,
 made public today information that
 they confidently expect to make them
 individual multi-millionairea One of
 their number, an inventor of interna-
 tiona1 reputation, claims to have as
 sembled for universal commercial use
 an ideal combination of the moving
 picture machine and the phonOgraph
 for which all the world has looked
 for five years or more, while scien-
 worked frantically in shops and la
 boratories at the behests of the mo-
 ton picture combines
 E.. H. Amet of Berkeley, who has
 to his credit a, score of patents for
 improvement of the talking machine
 and moving picture apparatus makes
 first demand for commercial recogni-
 tion. At the conclusion of the first
 demonstration to which outsiders were
 admitted he predicted that the audo-
 moto-photo would double the mas gnf-
 tude of the motion picture business.
 The triumph of his mechanism, he declared, is contained in the fact that
 1t may be produced at a relatively small cost and installed in every mo-
 ton picture house in existence with
 out extensive alteration of building or
 plant
 thusiastic than himself, yet mutual agreement has bound them to secrecy for nearly two years.
 For nearly five years Amet has combination Of sound and motion pie lures, adaptable to commercial repro auction. Long ago, according to his own account, he gave up all attempt to interpret moving pictures through the medium of photographic records made separately He resolved to find a method of making simultaneous record that could be given to an au- dience just as it was received. He finally determined that the desired re- suit could be obtained only by use of receiving apparatus that would work as a unit and operate with scientific accuracy.
 do-moto-photo does it's work With motion picture camera and phono- graphic receiver mounted on a com mon tripod, which may be whirled in volve on one axis, which is subject to control by the operator. Whatever sound is registered through the medi- um of the latest photographic receiv- CT, warranted to register sounds in audible to the human ear, is caught at the instant of it's arrival, and within one of the tiny oblong strips of film absorbs the attitude of the actors and the appearance of the scenery with in focus of the camera,
 Tn reproduction the film and rec ord are mechanically connected, sol shat neither impression may be con veyed to an audience in advance of the other. The eye beholds motion l that is entirely consistent with the sound. In the approach of railroad, | the smoke of the locomotive is seen and the click of the rails becomes audible as the engine comest into view The full roar of the train, | the whistle, and the clang of the bell | are heard as the engine and coaches flash by and the sound gradually dim | finishes as the train disappears in the | distance.
 With a singer in garden, photo graphed at distance of a few feet, | the possibilities of dramatic enter tainnnent through the audo-moto- l performer move in exact accord with | the utterance of the photograph.
 AInet bases his claim to success upon an added improvement havin 2 | to do with the distribution of sound. | An automatic switch attached to the revolving photographic cylinder, he une and effect from the relative posi- ton whence it originated. As an ac- tor walks about. and his position on ! the screen is changed in the motion i pictures, the voice comes from his ap- l parent place the stage. Further | more the sound producing apparatus : heightens the delusion by rendering the notes clear or indistinct, as the place of their origin is close Or dis tant. This effect is obtained by a sys- tenn of electrical connections with all parts of the screen, with the orches- tra pit and with any portion of an auditorium where developments may be expected or arranged. It may be SO managed that duet, with one sing CT on the stage and another in the balcony, is reproduced with startling effect.
 picture given would be that Of the stage performer.
 whether the Amet Inventions Com pany intends to sell to a syndicate,