[TCML] Tesla coils on italian TV show!

[Barton B. Anderson]

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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