the latter having invested the time and expense needed to transfer the glass transparencies to ink in their magazine. The process also inspired French banker Albert Kahn to sponsor what was to have been a worldwide picture gathering effort called the Archive of the Planet. In 1929, when Kahn lost his fortune at the outset of the Great Depression, his teams of photographers had already visited 50 countries and created 72,000 autochromes in addition to motion- picture films