Who Killed the Electric Car?
This is a 2006 documentary film that explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
It was released on DVD to the home video market on November 14, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Check out it out if you have some spare time.
This movie is for Education Purposes only.
The world's largest video-sharing website YouTube will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives, it will announce today.
It is the latest step by the Google-owned site to boost advertising revenue and compete with its biggest rival - online film site Hulo.Com.
MGM Studios will kick off the partnership by posting episodes of its decade-old 'American Gladiators' programme to YouTube on one channel.
On another channel, MGM will feature full-length action films like 'Bulletproof Monk' and 'The Magnificent Seven' and clips from popular movies like 'Legally Blonde.' These will be free to watch, with adverts running alongside the video.
YouTube in October forged a similar partnership with CBS Corp to run full-length archived shows, including 'Star Trek,' 'Young and the Restless' and 'Beverly Hills 90210.' The service is currently only available in the U.S.
Many TV networks already run short clips on YouTube, which also offers millions of home videos uploaded by users.
But until now, YouTube videos were predominantly short clips of ten minutes or less. The company has been experimenting with full-length shows for some months with Time Warner Inc's HBO and CBS's Showtime cable networks.
The new partnership puts YouTube in more direct competition with Hulu, the online video site owned by News Corp and General Electric's NBC Universal.
Hulu features up-to-date full-length shows from Fox, NBC and CBS and although the site only draws only a fraction of YouTube's audience it has reportedly nearly matched their advertising revenue in its first year.
In a vote of historic proportions yesterday, Senator Barack Obama became President-Elect of the United States of America with a 52% majority in the popular vote, and more than 349 electoral votes. Over two years of campaigning was resolved with a record voter turnout, as the Republican candidate John McCain conceded graciously at 11:20 pm eastern last night. With such a high level of interest and attention, there have been millions of words written and photographs taken of the candidates over the past year. Here is a collection of some of the best photos of President-Elect Barack Obama over the past several months.
Senator Barack Obama takes the ball to the hole as Reggie Love, green jersey, former Duke basketball player, left, and Chris Duhon, former Duke basketball player and now NBA Chicago Bulls player, during a pick-up basketball game on primary day in Chicago, Tuesday, May, 20, 2008. (Doug Mills/ The New York Times) #
US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama shares a fist bump with Ethan Gibbs, the five year-old son of campaign communication director Robert Gibbs, upon disembarking from his campaign plane at Dulles airport in Chantilly, Virgina, on October 22, 2008. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) #
I'm Sure most of you out there, must have seen the CNN hologram interview. check out this video as they explain how they did it.
1. This is a temporary CNN tent erected in Chicago where the "hologram" news reporters were stationed and talking live to their counterparts in New York.
2. This is the inside look of the CNN hologram tent. This is a round green-screen room with 35 high-def video cameras surrounding the news reporter who’s standing in the middle.
3. The cameras in the green room "talk" to the New York studio’s cameras, meaning that when a New York camera moves, it "tells" the cameras in the tent which direction it’s moving and keeps the subject in the correct proportions.
4. And there you have it. The inset image shows the real view in Chicago though we saw something totally different on our TV screens.
In case you noticed some blue glowing edges around the hologram image, they were added intentionally to avoid confusion.
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