ZPEnergy.com - History Channel- Electronics Show--Request

Hi Group,

I have a request for some suggestions for a show I am producing and I know there are some brilliant minds in this group. :)

Perpetual Motion Films is a television documentary production company in Los Angeles that has produced over 100 hours of quality programming for A&E and the History Channel. Currently, we are producing a 13-hour Hi-Definition series for the History Channel entitled “BONEYARD: The Secret Life of Machines.” In this series, we follow the after-life of some of our greatest achievements in manufacturing, design, engineering and construction.

I am looking for suggestions for our ELECTRONICS segment.

We have computers and batteries and refrigerators covered. One is a
recycling story and another is how discarded computer motherboards arechopped up and all the gold taken out and sold to high-profile Jewelers. The battery story is metals taken out of used batteries and then transformed into stainless steel surgical instruments. Also we have AUTOS and AIRCRAFT covered as well.

Any interesting recycling being done with cell phones, old cord phones, copper from any machine, old TV's, Transistor Radios. Any outdated machine or appliance OR any interesting electrical appliance that was popular at one time but has since gone to it's grave for one reason or another or any thing new that has older parts in it or something that is an offshoot of something in an electronic boneyard or has been completely transformed.

Here are the idea rules-- A Boneyard is:

1.Something that DIES, never to return--relegated to the Boneyard

2.Something destroyed, abandoned in the Boneyard, taken out and then completely transformed into something else.

3.Something destroyed, abandoned in the Boneyard, taken out and RESTORED to it's former glory.

NO ART

Must be a story of significance!

Please e-mail me at maddietrich@gmail.com

Many thanks for any thoughts in advance,

Michelle Sullivan
Perpetual Motion Films
Los Angeles, CA