Here are 11 Australian TV segments about my stuff: GWN News, Ch 7, April 25 2013 – Sword swallowing and sparks ABC Open, Oct 12 2013 – A shocking passion Australia’s Got Talent, Ch 7, 2011 GWN News, Ch 7, Dec 25 2010 – Worlds Brightest Bike lights. Ten News, Ch 10, 2009 – Cosmology Gallery Opening A Current Affair, Ch 9, Sept 21 2009 – High voltage power lines. Today Tonight, Ch 7, May 2009 – Modern Thinker Today Tonight, Ch 7, Jan 2009 – Tesla coil effects WIN News Ch 9, Feb 21 2009 – Xmas tree. WIN News Ch 9, Dec 23 2008 – Australia and 16 other countries “Elec-trickery” Sunrise, Ch 7, Nov 4 2011 – Ripley’s believe it or not!
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This video went to Australian national TV on April 29, 2014 (ABC 1 prior to the 7 pm news) and earlier on Feb 7th (ABC News 24 Series 3, episode 2) with repeat on July 5th.
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Creative Differences is a media production company in the US that raised the possibility of a TV series. This was their “Dr Shock” promo pitched to US Discovery Channel. The plan was for 13 half hour episodes.
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“Elec-trickery” WIN TVAustralia had a news item on 23/12/08 for 90 seconds. Reported and filmed by Tiffany Wertheimer. Also screened on Channel 9 news and A Current Affair to give wide coverage in Australia. This eventually went international to 16 countries including in the USA on MSNBC
Above, are a few pictures from the Win TV shoot. The 5kJ capacitor bank explosion of some steel wool and aluminum actually started 2 small grass fires which were caught on camera.
The sources of the jukebox clips above are here: Reuters Dec 2008 (a large international news service) had this version of the WIN TV segment which they titled: “Zapping for Elec-trickery man” . Reuters is also the source of these: Reuters (article), Reuters (Video rough cut, no narration), Blinkx VideoUSATV news Dec 2008. Made it to the MSNBCEditors Picks UKTV news Dec 2008, on ITN TV. (…isn’t a Timelord..) Meet Australia’s Electro-man. China TV News (in Chinese) Dec 2008. The site and details are here. Another Chinese report shows a newspaper article. Details on the Youtube report. China TV Newshere New Tang Dynasty TV in English and French. ItalyTV Newshere,Turkey TV newshere, Holland TV newshere, Brasil TV newshere, Romania TV newshere
A few other countries whose clips I couldn’t capture for the jukebox above are: Norway TV newshere,Denmark TV newshere,Indonesian TV newshere, Croatian TV here Switzerland TV newshere.
Maximus Film Germany. Filmed in Bunbury Feb 5 2010. Screened ?April 2010 and rescreened Sept 1 2010. Two segments, one of which is about crazy inventors.
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