Da: Leonardo De Sá
Data: marted́ 15 agosto 2006 08:24
Hi Gianfranco, 
I have a ton of backlogged email yet to read and only now happened upon this from afnews last June 25:
Actually fotoromanzi existed since the late nineteenth century,
normally published in illustrated magazines.
Our naughty forefathers even had porn photo novels in book form,
now vintage collector editions.
When cinema started developing photo novel adaptations also appeared.
Nearer to our comics world,
a few photo photo comic strips existed in the 1920s and 1930s newspapers
and even DC Comics had an early publication which mixed photo novels
(which the Americans call "fumetti", singular, and "fumettis", plural, as coined by Harvey Kurtzman)
with real comics back in 1939, "Movie Comics":
http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=113 
Also please note that contrary to what the text says the first important and original photo novel publication
was "Sogno", which began on March 8, 1947.
"Bolero Film" was in fact the second one,
having started on May 25, 1947.
My best,
Leo