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Seniors Programs
The Fremantle Light and Sound Discovery Centre
can
provide
special programs for senior citizens groups. We will visit your
premises.
These programs, which are based on history and nostalgia themes, will be presented with an entertaining format. The visitors will be able to choose the type of program they wish to experience, and they can have some input into the content of these programs. For example musical requests can be made.
The programs may include:
1. The Tale of the Talking machine:
the history of sound recording, with
actual
demonstrations of some of the oldest and most unusual record players in
Western Australia.
2. Invention of the Motion Pictures:
the story of the invention of motion pictures, with
demonstrations
of early instruments such as the Zootrope, Phenakistoscope, and
Praxinoscope. Experience a magic lantern slide show and a silent movie.
3. Professor Archibald's Fantastic Phonograph:
The story of the first Edison Phonograph to be brought
into Western Australia, and the controversy it caused.
4. The Role of the Gramophone in First
World War.
Here stories and sounds of the Great War as recorded on original 78s.
Here them played on original gramophones.
5. Mysterious Musical Instrumants
See and hear some amazing, old and rare musical instruments. Find out
how they work and why they were invented. Also see some antique hearing
aids.
Pensioner
clubs will be
specially
catered for.
The Fremantle Light and Sound Discovery Centre
in Western Australia