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Automatic Advertising Machine
Munich
- Date
- 1933, Februar 15
- Location
- Munich
- Country
- Germany
- Material
- silver gelatin print on glossy paper
- Size
- 21,2 (22,7) x 15,5 (17,9) cm
- Artist
- ACME · Unidentified Photographer
Description
Automatic advertising machine have made their appearance in Munich, Germany. The outside surface of the machine has room for 1200 small advertisements. Prospective advertisers insert the required sum of money in a slot of the device, whereupon a card appears on which the advertiser may inscribe his advertising copy which is limited to twenty words. He then drops it into a letter box attached to the machine and the next day the advertisement appears on the surface of machines all over the city. Credit line (ACME) 2/15/33 Stamp: ACME Newspictures, Inc. Stamp: Ref. Dept. Feb 211933 N. E. A.