DENMARK: MUSEUM OPENED FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION SETS IN COPENHAGEN.

Record ID: 227325

  • Title: DENMARK: MUSEUM OPENED FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION SETS IN COPENHAGEN.
  • Date: 30th May 1963
  • Summary: 1. LV.PAN...PEOPLE LOOKING AT EXHIBITS. 0.10 2. SCU DITTO. 0.13 3. SCU MR. SCHOWBO, PLACES RECORD ON MUSIC BOX MADE IN 1900. 0.21 4. SCU RECORD STARTS TO TURN. 0.29 5. FULL CU...DITTO - SHOWING NOTCHES WHICH PRODUCE SOUND. 0.35 6. CU.PAN.ALONG...VARIOUS RADIO SPEAKERS 0.46 7. SCU WOMAN LOOKS AT A FOUR LAMP RADIO RECEIVER, HOME MADE IN 1923. 0.54 8. SCU OLD DANISH WIRE RECORDER DATE 1947. 1.02 9. CU DITTO. 1.06 10. SV 1904 TELEGRAPHONE MAN SWITCHES ON. 1.10 11. SLV DITTO SHOWING SPEAKER. 1.15 12. SCU LOUDSPEAKERS FROM 120-1925 1.19 13. SCU GIRL LOOKS AT TELEVISION SETS FROM THE YEAR 1938. 1.30 14. GV EXHIBITION. 1.40 Initials DR/V/AW/GH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th June 1963 13:00
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  • Location: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
  • Country: Denmark
  • Reuters ID: LVA5C1APDBJGAEEB5BBNX6PZVMYB
  • Story Text: A DANISH BUSINESSMAN, MR.TAGE SCHOWBO, HAS ESTABLISHED AN UNUSUAL MUSEUM IN COPENHAGEN -- TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIO AND TELEVISION FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS.

    MR.SCHOWBO BEGAN HIS COLLECTION IN 1920 AND NOW HAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST COLLECTIONS OF OLD SETS IN THE WORLD.RECENTLY HE OPENED THE MUSEUM, WITH MORE THAN 1,000 PIECES ON SHOW.

    THE COLLECTION WITH THE EARLIEST PIECES DATING FROM THE START OF THE CENTURY, IS VALUED AT ABOUT 1« MILLION DANISH KRONER (GBP75,000).
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