evoluon

Evoluon was a museum of science and technology in Eindhoven, that closed in 1989. Although I never visited it, it was an unique hands-on museum much like parts of the Science museum is today, in London.

One of the reasons I know about evoluon was because of a film shown repeatedly in the early 1970s as part of BBC test transmissions. Colour television was being introduced at that time in England, and the BBC would show short colour films that TV engineers used to set up TVs during the day (there was no 24 hour TV then :-)) - it was always one of my favourites.

What is interesting about this film, apart from the waves of nostalgia it induces, is the sound track with many electronic sounds and early voice synthesis interspersed with groovy late sixties music. I wonder if Kraftwerk saw this?

part 1



part 2


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