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Seniors Programs        

The Fremantle Light and Sound Discovery Centre will provide special programs for senior citizens.

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 will include:

1.   The Tale of the Talking machine:
the story of the phonograph and the gramophone with actual demonstrations of some of the oldest and most unusual record players in Western Australia.

2.  History of the Wireless in Western Australia:
a demonstration and working display which illustrates the evolution of the wireless from the Mulgaphone to FM tuners, with special emphasis on the wireless W.A.

3.  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.

4.  Nostalgia Program:
sights and sound of the Big Band era with music played on original record players from the war years; or music from the 1930’s played on meticulously restored gramophones.

Pensioner clubs will be specially catered for.

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