• Director(s):

    KENDALL-YATZKAN (Anna Celia)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, LOBSTER FILMS, STEAMBOAT FILMS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2007

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

On the 22 of June 1979, Sony Japan launched its cassette-players development-team's latest brain-child - the Walkman TPS-L2.

This object, and more importantly the concept of it, initially created to respond to the personal desires of Sony's founders Messrs Morita and Ibuka, quickly proved to be a tremendous technical and commercial success.
Since then, the " Walkman " phenomenon, still thriving, has spread throughout the world, changing our domestic environments, our attitude to music, our attitude to other people, our behaviour, and even our identity.
We examine the extent to which the first Walkman created a new man, opening the way for a range of everyday miniature and portable objects, such as the iPod, the MP3 player, the mobile phone, and many more.