. >> eventually he was approached by thomas edison to create film for motion pictures. 35 millimeterut eastman wanted to take it a step further to the consumer level. movie cameras like the kind used in hollywood were big and expensive, the solution, the cine kodak, this is where home movies began. not even half the size of a professional camera it used even smaller 16 millimeter film introduced in 1923 may look primitive but it began a revolution. >> they had various songs to sting keep time with. basically 16 frames per second is about right here. >> even today the camera still works. i shot this in central park. >> still works. very well made. >> biggest draw back was the retail price, equivalent of about $2,000. so in 1926 kodak introduced the model b, instead of hand cranked it was spring wound. >> so you just flip the lever it runs, you don't have to worry about the right speeds. this frees the photography up to basically hold it at eye level. and shoot like so. >> the first time ever a family could shoot a record of their day at the beach. color film didn't come in until the 1

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and this is from thomas edison, it's a great quote. >> we are always experimentling with lighting. think lighting is something that really makes or breaks a space. in this particular office we wanted to experiment with residential lighting. commercial lighting can feel cold or boiler plate, boring. we used chandeliers, can you get enough ambient light, what kind of feeling does it give you and i think the result was great. i mentioned desk space. one of the things we wanted to experiment was using vintage and found tables and how you can create a cohesive look when every single table is different. so we used something as simple as a paint color. we took the different tables and painted them all the same color and i think it gives a unity to the workspace. if i need to sit six more people or 20 more in the office space, i don't want the whole aesthetic fall apart because we introduced a different type of chair. how do we get the transience in the workplace and that's something we're pushing the boundary of. >>> bringing your business to the forefront of your audience's mind is no ea

. >> thomas edison filmed the electrocution of an el fabt. fant. >> one of our first electrical aprienss was the electric chair. in 1997, a man was exkuded from across this way from one ear to the other. >> the warden was quoted as saying the flames smoked the tu tread order. in 1997, lethal injections were initialled. >> it looks calm and peaceful. to a graet degree, if ma mean has much more to do with t witnesses than it does with con sdem. >> the challenge was finding executioners with the medical skills to do the job. >> today there the united states, it's illegal. they're not properly trained to do an i virks sur zur john. >> just 17 steps from a room, he was helping his executioners. he laid on his side. >> after two hours, an unprecedented request. he asked the gov northerly to grant a temporary reprieve. >> romel bruman is still on death row. but he does not have an execution date and attorneys are arguing that you can't try to kill someone twice. >> corrections officials were undeterred. plan b proposed using a drug with a pandora's

. >> thomas edison predicted the industrial revolution would put enough carbon into the atmosphere to change our climate. this is not a new idea. we've depended on edison science and technology for everything we've done. he predicted climate change back then. here it is today. it's not big surprise. >> so what is your explanation? florida politics as a whole doesn't seem to be particularly worked up about something that is so obviously manifestly a threat to not just people but as you said billions of dollars. >> well, as a whole, it's not worked out. as a half it is worked up. you've got people on the take, obviously, from some very specific moneyed concerns saying it's no big deal or we can't do anything about it even if it is a big deal. you've got the rest of the world listening to the scientists saying this is the largest crisis that mankind has yet engaged. we have to engage it with everything we've got into do you guys see the front edge effects here? >> of course we do. we've seen our summer season extending by a month over the past few decades. we see saltwater coming up out

been around for a long time, and electrical infrastructure hasn't changed really very much since thomas edison wired up the jp morgan mansion in new york, but it is also old-school. it is based on an old model of thinking about electricity and how it should work, and that is optimized for those big centralized power plants that are way out in the pucker brush and it is centralized for fossil fuels. so developing our own communities, we are thinking about how a power grid might look like. we're looking at increasingly renewable power sources. there was a system that we had that was for most of its history virtually and literally a monopoly. at that does not mean that the utilities will go away. they are going to be more critical than ever. they're going to have to enable green power and they're going to have to get smarter and interface with what is now being called the internet of things, possibly with our electric cars, with their phones, with our appliances. they will have to get more sophisticated about pricing, and reward people for using less power. utilities are going to have to become a

the employees at thomas edison high school and the john ferrera skill center hit the pavement to letents know they are excited about the school year. they wanted to get acquainted with residents and businesses in the area and to see what their students will encounter on their way to school. the principal started this tradition last year. >> time for accuweather at the "action news" big world, meteorologist melissa magee has been saying perhaps a big precip before we get into the meat and bones of the holiday weekend. >> yeah, that's right, yeah, hungry, thirsty, too. >> i didn't have lunch, i'm sorry. >> it does look like we're tracking some spotty showers right now but a lot of that pushing off to our south and west. here's storm tracker6 live double scan radar. you can see for philadelphia that 95 corridor points to the east they're dry. across lancaster county and to the north of lancaster we're tracking a spotty shower. on street level you can see on storm tracker we're tracking some moisture moving to the south and west of lititz pressing into manheim at this hour. lightning str

and thomas edison learned to be thomas edison, around a boat yard.lege and say i want to learn about filaments. you've five, six, seven, eight years old, that's when they become who they become. sandra: the manufacturing sector has an obligation to make them cool again. i'm sorry, i am sorry to say that, but-- >> the media. sandra: that's jobs are cool ap that's what they want. the manufacturing sector has not revived itself. maria: you don't hear a kid saying today, i want to be a steel worker, i want to be a football player, a baseball player, i want to be on tv. >> the media is at fault. every time i make a movie or tv show. maria: the media? blame the media. >> and even go back to, let's say gomer pyle, a master mechanic, but an idiot. maria: i see what you're saying. the portrayal. >> the portrayal of the trades. sandra: copy that. >> and also as a female, wouldn't you want to be with a man who is capable. maria: yeah, handy. sandra: actually. >> a college degree-- >> is your husband handy. sandra: totally capable. peeking of kids not knowing ho

steve jobs, bill gates, thomas edison. all of which didn't have a college degree.look at how they have contributed to the economy. i admire your guest and everything that she is doing and i hope we will survive in the 21st century. tanks. -- thanks. katie vlietstra: this is actually a challenge on capitol hill across the states. for lawmakers to understand the impact that the 23 million self-employed contribute. is always -- you are always talking about big business, emerging economies as far as high-growth economies. continualou have growth in self-employment. these are people who really like what they do. they're just doing it in a different way. this is our big issue. these people are amazing. they are out there, working hard. you should be paying attention to them. you should be making it easier for people to become self-employed about that is the choice they want to make. has spent ayone who career self-employed, because it is challenging. you have the tax challenge of quarterly filing. you have the 50.3% tax that you pay. you did not have affordable health ca

been around for a long time, and electrical infrastructure hasn't changed really very much since thomas edison wired up the jp morgan mansion in new york, but it is also old-school. it is based on an old model of thinking about electricity and how it should work, and that is optimized for those big centralized power plants that are way out in the pucker brush and it is centralized for fossil fuels. so developing our own communities, we are thinking about how a power grid might look like. we're looking at increasingly renewable power sources. there was a system that we had that was for most of its history virtually and literally a monopoly. at that does not mean that the utilities will go away. they are going to be more critical than ever. they're going to have to enable green power and they're going to have to get smarter and interface with what is now being called the internet of things, possibly with our electric cars, with their phones, with our appliances. they will have to get more sophisticated about pricing, and reward people for using less power. utilities are going to have to become a

. >> he's our thomas edison. he is remarkable. everything he touches turns to gold. believe it all. as you get closer to steven jobs, your documentary reveals the love dissipates a bit. >> well -- >> love by strangers, loathed by a lot of people who knew him. >> befoautiful from afar. a lot of people thought of him as santa claus. there is that part of him. there are people who thought of him as the pod father. a corleoni of silicon valley. one guy we talked to talked about his exit interview with steve jobs when he's going to another company steve said you have been a member of our foomally for a long time. if you so much as take one member of our family with you, i'm going to take you out. >> shows an anecdotal bit of evidence, too. a guy who had no -- >> he famously ended all of apple's charitable programs as soon as he took the helm. >> why? >> he said famously he thought it was a waste of time. this is odd baz you think of steve jobs as the hip guy who used to vilify bill gates as the tupperware salesman. bill gates, after all, is the guy responsible for giving