![]() ![]() The same writer was also responsible for the invention of ideas like germ warfare which, if he had been heeded could have made the Great War possible as early as 1904, and of some things which have still not been tried out, such as the necromobile. A revolutionary idea, which was to make such an impact on the media that even now its effects have not been felt. Instead of printing them on paper, the writer suggested, one should produce them on tiny squares of film which could be projected on to the wall of one's breakfast room. It isn't generally known that the idea of microfilm was born seventy years ago in Paris when an article appeared lamenting the imminent disappearance of the trees of the world in the cause of producing newspapers. Well, having told you something about Alphonse Allais, perhaps I can now get on to one of the main subjects of tonight's talk, which is the invention of microfilm. He was born in Honfleur in 1854 and died in Paris in 1905. Tonight I would like to tell you something about Alphonse Allais, the French writer. ![]()
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