{"id":19503,"date":"2020-12-29T04:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=19503"},"modified":"2020-12-27T03:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T07:44:32","slug":"how-to-tell-when-a-topic-is-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/how-to-tell-when-a-topic-is-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"how to tell when a topic is HOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19504\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ad-SI-Nov-1928.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19504\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19504\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ad-SI-Nov-1928-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ad in Nov 1928 issue of S&amp;I magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the roaring twenties, a century ago, movies were all the rage. As a result, &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; ads were everywhere. A typical ad was this <a href=\"https:\/\/worldradiohistory.com\/Archive-Electrical-Experimenter\/SI-1928-11.pdf\">November 1928 ad in Science and Invention magazine<\/a> on page 651. The ad promised that readers could earn one hundred dollars (US) per week taking movies or stills.<\/p>\n<p>This was a magnificent sum in 1928 and promised by the &#8220;N.Y. Institute of Photography&#8221; in NYC . No cost is given in their ad copy but they say they will give readers a &#8220;professional still or movie camera&#8221; plus instruction on how to get started &#8211; no previous experience needed!<\/p>\n<p>This and other ads promised outrageous salaries in hot fields for untrained readers.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks once again to my friend George Dunbar who was a serious professional industrial photographer in both stills and movies\/videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the roaring twenties, a century ago, movies were all the rage. As a result, &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; ads were everywhere. A typical ad was this November 1928 ad in Science and Invention magazine on page 651. The ad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/how-to-tell-when-a-topic-is-hot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2960,102,93,3396,3245],"class_list":["post-19503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-2960","tag-magazine","tag-movie","tag-si","tag-still"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19507,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions\/19507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}