Waukegan (Illinois) in Early Film Industry-- Part 4: What Else?

So, Edward Amet gets firsts for:

**  First use of props

**  First newsreel

**  First "Fake" newsreel

Edward Amet ceased producing his magniscope in 1900 after the release of the polyscope by the Selig Polyscope Company.  He sold his  share of their company to George Spoor.Afterwards, Amet went on to try to find a cure for cancer.

He also  returned to his film career in 1911 when he designed the Auto-Moto-Photo, a combination phonograph and film projector.    The phonograph recorder was hooked up directly to the  camera, allowing the first synchronized  sound.  However, the contraption evidently id not accomplish its objective as it never made an impact.

Amet died on August 16, 1948, in Redondo Beach, California.

--Cooter

Looking Back, DeKalb County, Il., 100 Years Ago: Mighty Excited About Those "Talkies"

OCTOBER 22, 1913:

MOVING PICTURE TALKIES

"It is certain that the invention of Thomas A. Edison of the talking pictures would be pronounced one of the seven wonders of the world.  The wizard's latest and generally-conceded most wonderful invention, the Talking Moving Picture, will be exhibited in a special program at Townsend Theater in Sycamore on Friday.

"Not the usual moving pictures; the laughing, talking, singing motion pictures make the pictured actors appear real."

DISEASE

The state board of education has ordered an investigation at Rockford to trace the cause of the epidemic of typhoid fever there.

Diphtheria still prevails at DeKalb.  Eight homes were under quarantine early this week, and one was released from quarantine.

MINE DISASTER

Fourteen bodies have been removed and 22 men found alive by rescuers working the Satg Canyon coal mine in New Mexico, where an explosion entombed the day shift, numbering from 230 to 280 men.

--Cooter