formerly: NIKIE, PATENT 647,576, TESLA PATENT 647,576
Thomas Edison, the pragmatic businessman-inventor did not know how to deal
with this tall, 30-year old Serbian and on one occasion reneged on a $50,000 bonus
after Tesla solved an electrical problem on the SS Oregon's
in FAR less time than believed possible.
With little regard for the pedestrian goal of making money and the time it would take to file his 140 patents,
Tesla was more concerned about using his time and mind for the for the good of
humanity. Had Tesla not sold the rights to his patents for the polyphase generator,
he would be one of the richest men on Earth. In other words, in each place one
sees the GE logo today, they would see the TESLA logo instead.
Probably the greatest friend Mankind has every had, the world has paid Nikola Tesla "respect" by
literally stealing the fruits of his genius and then forgetting him . . . yet our entire industrialized
civilization was made possible by him, almost single-handedly.
After Tesla understood and mastered low frequency electromagnetic force
(and set the standard of 60 cycles per second alternating current that we use today),
he naturally moved his research into higher frequency investigation. This lead to an understanding
of how electricity could be transmitted over long distances and eventually, futher research in this direction
lead to the invention of radio. Some of Tesla's discoveries of high-frequency phenomenon
above the radio band lead to his independent discovery of X-rays and even phenomena that gives
governments the willies to this day. Tesla once said he could split the planet in half with standing wave resonance --
concepts that are responsible for the atomic clock in use today. Don't bet your life he couldn't.
TESLA is a story that only the daring Orson Wells scratched the surface of with his low budget feature,
TAJNA NIKOLE TESLE (a.k.a. THE SECRET OF NIKOLA TESLA) produced by a foreign production company
and virtually unknown (perhaps covertly banned) in the United States.
Much of the life and accomplishments of Nikola Tesla are still a mystery.
When he died in 1946, the government rushed his apartment and confiscated his papers and gadgets.
TESLA is a motion picture that explores the heady New York politics of Tesla's most
productive years in the age of innocence. The picture weaves his relationships with friends,
guests and lovers -- J.P. Morgan, Sara Bernhardt, Mark Twain, John D. Rockefeller, the Astors,
the Vanderbilts, Flora Dodge, Henry Ford, Katharine Johnson, Thomas Edison -- who
though they loved or hated him, always admired him. © 2000 - 2002 dNa DevelopMent
SCRIPT:
PREMISE:
Nikola Tesla, the actual inventor of radio (according to a 1947 Supreme Court decision in
connection with patent 647,576) summed up his life (and this movie) by
saying: "I do not believe an inventor should marry, because he has so intense
a nature, with so much in it of wild, passionate quality, that in giving himself to
a woman he might love, he would give everything and so take everything from his chosen
field." © dNa DevelopMent (Drama)
SYNOPSIS:
High fashion New York society in 1920 was no place, and the only place, for a brilliant electrical-genius to be promoting
the financing of his next invention. The man who invented AC current, florescent lighting
and arguably even the radio, could mock-up an electrical schematic in his head
and when it was built -- it worked -- the first time, every time.
SUMMARY:
Most everyone has been lead to believe that THOMAS EDISON was the greatest inventor that ever lived and that GUGLIELMO MARCONI invented the radio. Actually Tesla filed the two critical underlying patents and physically demonstrated a radio system with all of the fundamental components present in 1897 -- several years before Marconi. For this reason, Marconi's patent applications were rejected by the U.S Patent Office. But Marconi, an Italian nobleman of means, joined forces with Edison, ANDREW CARNEGI and J.P. MORGAN to establish a public corporation to beat Tesla to the market place, even though they had to use 17 of Tesla's patents. But suddenly in 1904, the U.S. Patent Office reversed its previous decision and granted Marconi the underlying patent for the invention of radio. More
PRODUCTION COMPANY:
Matrixx Productions
223 W. Lancaster Ave.
Devon, PA 19333
PRODUCER UNIT:
James R. Jaeger II, Producer
Matt Huntington - Associate Producer
DIRECTOR:
James Jaeger
James Jaeger (provisional)
CAST:
Daniel Day-Lewis (provisional)
CAMERA/DP:
Conrad Hall (provisional)
EDITOR:
Dick Brummer
PRODUCTION DESIGNER:
Dante Ferretti (provisional)
SPECIAL EFFECTS:
Digital Domain (provisional)
SOUND:
Paul Gibbons
CONSULTANTS:
Ken Gullekson
John W. Wagner
G. Edward Griffin
SHOOTING LOCATIONS:
New York City, Colorado Springs, Pittsburgh
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