The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Kure, Japan. 5 August 1954. Recording Japanese musical instruments, the 'koto' (centre) and 'shamisen' (right), played by three Japanese women in traditional clothing. This is for a program to be used over the Britcom Broadcasting Station in Kure. Recording are the Station's chief announcer, Warrant Officer Class 1 Frank Burton of Five Dock, NSW (right), and technician Signalman Peter Barnett of Weymouth, Dorset, England. The recording is being done in a Japanese home with a seven inch reel to reel recorder.
Kure, Japan. 5 August 1954. Recording Japanese musical instruments, the 'koto' (centre) and 'shamisen' (right), played by three Japanese women in traditional clothing. This is for a program to be used
Kure, Japan. 5 August 1954. Recording Japanese musical instruments, the 'koto' (centre) and 'shamisen' (right), played by three Japanese women in traditional clothing. This is for a program to be used
Kure, Japan. 5 August 1954. Members of the brass band of visiting aircraft carrier HMS Warrior leave the Britcom Broadcasting Station in Kure, carrying their instruments in cases, after rehearsal in t
Kure, Japan. 5 August 1954. Warrant Officer Class 1 Frank Burton of Five Dock, NSW, chief announcer at the Britcom Broadcasting Station in Kure, at work.
Kure, Japan. 5 August 1954. Warrant Officer Class 1 Frank Burton of Five Dock, NSW, the chief announcer at the Britcom Broadcasting Station in Kure, reads from his notes as he speaks into the micropho
Kure, Japan. 5 August 1954. Seated at the console, senior announcer Warrant Officer Class 1 Frank Burton of Five Dock, NSW, introduced the day's `Force's Choice' request session in Studio 1 of the Bri
