Video Archives
Morning on the Farm (1899) by Trevor Lloyd Williams
New BBC Radio 4 series starts Monday 23rd – Friday 27th November 2015 each day at 1.45 pm (except Wednesday 25th at 3.45pm) This programme will be available shortly after broadcast. Cerys Matthews and Tristram Penna use their music industry careers to examine the legacy and stories behind some of the first Gramophone records recorded in Britain from […]
Read more‘Trains At Hayes’ – the world’s first stereo film, made in 1935 (clip)
Clip from the first ever piece of film footage shot in stereo, ‘Trains At Hayes’, produced by prolific engineer and innovator Alan Dower Blumlein, the inventor of stereo. This film was shot from a window in the EMI offices in Hayes, West London in 1935 onto the local train station to test this new technology […]
Read moreMemories of EMI – Malcolm Addey on “Move It!”
The EMI Archive Trust was delighted to sit down with the wonderful Malcolm Addey. He was hired in March 1958 as a trainee/assistant engineer and after an unprecedented short three months was promoted and invited to join the renowned “pop” recording team of Peter Bown and Stuart Eltham. By July he had already recorded Cliff […]
Read moreYuletide Greetings
The EMI Archive Trust would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. This tree’s revolving musical base is from Germany. Items like this were very popular around the beginning of the 20th century. This one is powered by a single spring, which rotates the Christmas tree and powers the two tune musical mechanism. We […]
Read moreMemories of EMI – Kevin Ryan at Abbey Road Studios
The lovely Kevin Ryan (co author of the Recording the Beatles book) shared a memory of his time working on the book within Abbey Road Studios and at the EMI Archives. If you are interested in taking part or would like more information about our Memories of EMI Campaign please contact us on: email: info@emiarchivetrust.org […]
Read moreForgotton Heroes: The Indian Army in the Great War
EMI has a long history of supporting artists and music in India. The Gramophone and Typewriter, Ltd. engaged agents in India as early as 1900 and soon established their Indian offices by 1901. In 1906 the site for a record pressing factory had been chosen in Sealdah, Calcutta. By 1946 The Gramophone Company of India […]
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