An Associated Press Feature Photo from the Daily Herald Archive entitled' Portable Automatic Record Player'. The photograph shows a young woman demonstrating portable record player, made by Philips, at the Radio and Television Fair in Frankfurt. She is pictured with the player and 3000 stacked records, the number of discs which can be played before the battery needs to be changed. Dated August 21st 1957.

Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive, indexed as Music, Instruments, Gramophones.

Portable Automatic Record Player

The demonstrator slips a disc into the slot of a new portable automatic record player at the Radio and Television Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. And that's all she has to do. The battery-powered automatic player does the rest. It plays 3,000 sides - the number of discs on the table in front of the demonstrator - before the battery runs down and has to be replaced. The new automatic portable is made by Philips.