Toronto. Back in September of last year, I did a post on the ill-fated B&H Foton camera. Since then, my good friend George Dunbar found another advertisement on the Futon, this time using the famous movie star Joan Crawford as spokesperson to push the camera. The ad shown here appeared in the May, 1951 edition of the magazine American Cinematographer.
Sadly, by the time the ad hit the magazine stands, the rare, very expensive and well built Foton had sunk beneath the waves, seen only in the odd camera collection. First built in 1948, it was considered on of the best of American 35mm cameras but was far too expensive to compete in the market place.
NB: the post title is a riff on the song “Did You Ever Seen a Dream Walking” sung here by Fats Domino.