Edison Bell Penkala Ltd. Zagreb
Настоящее имя: Edison Bell Penkala Ltd. Zagreb
The first record company in Yugoslavia.
Edison Bell Penkala Ltd. Zagreb was founded in 1926 as a joint stock company between Penkala-Moster d.d. and Edison Bell International Ltd.
It published and pressed 12", 10", 8" and 6" shellac records, and manufactured talking machines. An electrical recording studio was built in a concert venue called Music-Hall (Teslina 7, Zagreb).
In addition to domestic recordings, it also pressed records from Edison Bell's international catalogue (some acoustic, dating back as far as the 1910s) and imported records of prestigious labels (HMV, Columbia, Parlophon, Odeon, Brunswick, Homocord, Polydor). The factory was managed by Abraham Bernard Goodman, with Paul Gustavus Adolphus Helmuth Voigt as the recording engineer who also set up and designed the recording equipment. He recorded over 600 titles in 1927 before leaving Zagreb.
On 4 December 1927, EBP made the first live recording in continental Europe. 2 Christmas carols in the Zagreb cathedral were broadcast through a telephone line to the Music-Hall studio to be cut, then issued as 4202803. Alongside the choir, the local population was invited to participate in the event.
The recording studio inside the Music-Hall was sold to Radio Zagreb in 1933 and recording was relocated to a new studio inside the factory.
The company went bankrupt in 1937. A part of the pressing equipment was soon bought by Elektroton, some of which was even used by Jugoton.
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Zagreb:
Factory:
Baroševa (Branimirova ulica) 43
B cesta 35
Telephone: 3612, 3613 (as of 1927), 6957 (as of 1929 including the previous two, still active by 1931), 7961 (as of 1931)
Telegram: EDIBELL
Recording studio:
Nikolićeva ulica 7 (Teslina 7) until 1933
Branimirova ulica 43 until 1937
Retail:
Ilica 5 (Oktogon)
Telephone: 5767
Belgrade:
Kalemegdan 14 (Palača akademije nauka) until 2 December 1929
Knez Mihajlova, pasaž (Akademija nauka, Knez Mihailova 9) afterwards
Telephone: 4569 (as of 1929)
Pašićeva ulica 6
Telephone: 24490 (as of 1931)
Skopje:
Savatijeva ulica (Amerikanski pasaž - American Palace)
Šumadijska ulica 5
Telephone: 170 (as of 1929)