Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht over at Diggnation mentioned this Nikola Tesla video on their last episode. It is a must see!
UPDATE: It has come to my attention that some of the facts on the quote below are not correct, please have a look at the comments for some corrected information.
“Nikola Tesla (here played by Petar Bozovic) was a famous 19th century Yugoslavian inventor. The film recounts Tesla’s development of the … all ยป alternating electric current, first under the dictatorial thumb of Thomas Edison (Dennis Patrick), then on his own. Tesla develops a harmonious working relationship with George Westinghouse (Strother Martin), who indulges the inventor his eccentricities and gives him the credit he deserves, something the tyrannical Edison refused to do. Orson Welles appears briefly as J. P. Morgan in this Yugoslavian biopic, originally released as Tajna Nikole Tesle”
November 20th, 2006
In the film do they say that Tesla is unknown, but that in not realy thru, his is one of the more known inventors. But in US has Edison get the status of a hero and thats the pronblem, all remember the hero but not the sidekick.
But it is a great film, but I would not trust it as absolut fact.
November 20th, 2006
“Nikola Tesla was a famous 19th century Yugoslavian inventor.”
Nikola Tesla was not Yugoslavian, but CROATIAN. I live in Croatia (Hrvatska) just about 200km from the place he grew up (Lika-the “district”).
please correct that. Thank you
November 22nd, 2006
OK, if it really matters, he was a Serbian, born in Austria-Hungary(today Croatia)who spent most of his life in USA. But before all that, he was a genious who was never fully recognised. I just hope that future generations will know what he wanted to achieve and never was allowed to do.
February 17th, 2008
the saddist thing was the way Tesla died without a penny to his name… Edison was a piece of shit