Re: [TCML] Tesla coils on italian TV show!

["Chris Swinson" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting vid,  I think I heard "tesla coil" at some point, beyond that...

Now that would have been so much cooler if it had a couple of 13M's in there 
;-)

Chris




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Tesla coils on italian TV show!


Hello Fabio,

Thank you for sharing this video. It was very amusing! I did not
understand the language, but I could make out some of what was said.
Very entertaining!

Take care,
Bart

Fabio wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> Few months ago, i was contacted by the society who organize all courage 
> tests for an important italian TV show: their wanted a fear test with 
> sparks!  :-O
>
> during a short meeting with me, they understood that it could be easily 
> organized so, after few discarded ideas, the test was designed and 
> scheduled!  :-D
>
> I selected two members as helpers from ALTATENSIONE mailing list and we 
> finally moved in Rome "Cinecittà" with our appliances for setting the 
> test, in spite of the small duration of the test, the developement of 
> entire set was surprisingly longer and many-many-many people was required 
> (3 coilers plus one tailor, 5 carpenters, 6 cameramans, 2 audio 
> technicians, 6 light technicians, 1 electrician and many others..... at 
> least 30 people were used in 5 days of development!!!!)
>
> It was a special opportunity to know and work for the strange world of 
> television and, of course, a special opportunity to make known the tesla 
> coils in Italy, the statistics have placed "Ciao Darwin" to first place in 
> the audience with 24% share during the Tesla Coil test!
>
>
> anyhow, the test was a disaster......
>
> The first competitor was stopped in mid for a "scared problem", the second 
> refused the test after seeing the first one so the production decided to 
> offer only 150 points for the first team (the minimum allowable!) and no 
> points for the second team!   :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D
>
>
>
> The video of this courage test is available here, sorry for bad audio 
> stream, anyway it is in Italian language.
> http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid=-2494044185247288828
>
> Ciao!
> Fabio.
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