Television is essential in our everyday life - it serves as the most popular source of news and entertainment. Today we can hardly imagine our life without TV sets murmuring something in the background, without romantic dates in the cinema or without our personal video cameras that help us to remember our happiest moments.

Surely, our lives would be less impressive if it weren’t for Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsburg, and Charles Anderson, who invented video camera - the first machine to record both image and sound. This invention was sold for approximately $75,000 US Dollars (USD) apiece and at first was affordable only to major television broadcast studios.

We also should mention the name of John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world’s first working television system and first ever color broadcast. He is credited with being the first person to produce a live, moving, duotone (or “greyscale”) television image from reflected light.

Video cameras designed for personal use, or camcorders, became available to the general public in the 1980s. These machines were bulky, heavy, and expensive, but proved to be efficient. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, many companies that produced video cameras began to miniaturize and digitize their machines. The camcorder became a diminutive compact device and by the late 1990s, digital camcorders were the most popular form of video camera. Nowadays video camera technology is inserted into numerous portable devices including cell phones, PDAs, and digital cameras, capable of taking both still images and moving images as well as recording sound.

And today, after so many years of constant development of the video recording and broadcasting sphere we are able watch news, movies and videos by simply clicking a link.

Could you share these funny videos with your friends if it weren’t for Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsburg, Charles Anderson, John Logie Baird and others?

This is the story about 9-year-old Jayla Cooper and 7-year-old Jose Griggs, who were married at Paradise Cove, on the shore of Lake Grapevine in  north Texas. Jayla, who has been battling leukemia for two years, has been given weeks to live.  The wedding was the young girl’s dying wish. The kids met at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas two years ago and quickly formed a strong bond.

“I love him, and it was just really important to me,” said Jayla. “I had fun dancing with my dad and with him and my granny.”

Her mother, Lisa Cooper shared her reflections in an interview: “I can’t explain how I feel right now. I’m happy, but at the at same time I am sad because I know my child is going to go to heaven with the Lord.”

Here is the video from the wedding, done by CNN channel:

Appreciate every minute of your life and remember that love can beat death!..

Fred Figglehorn, Lucas Cruickshank, the hyperactive guy with a funny pithed voice, you may call him whatever you want, but once you see Fred, you just can not give it up! It makes you laugh and laugh and laugh again! And step by step, video by video you become FRED yourself! Aaaaaa!

Fred is 6 years old and he lives with his recovering alcoholic mother. Fred’s father is supposedly a rock star, is on death row in the state penitentiary. Fred has a crush on a girl in his Kindergarten class, named Judy. Judy has a very mean attitude, and is always “being a brat” but “it doesn’t matter, ‘cuz she’s really pretty!” Fred has an enemy Kevin, who seems to date Judy and bully Fred fom time to time. Fred’s favorite meal is a TV dinner.

Lucas Cruickshank, the author, director editor of “Fred” (and actually Fred himself), is a 14-year old guy from a small town in Idaho. He says he wanted to create a parody of all these people talking about their lives and making video diaries. Now Lucas is a star of YouTube every episide of Fred has more than 1 mln. views and Fred’s page has almost 830.000 subscribers!

Although Fred is not supposed to be using his mother’s video camera, or posting videos, or even having a YouTube account, he posts his videos to his YouTube channel. Fred has a high-pitched “chipmunk” voice — making him sound more like a 6 year old and less like a 15 year old. According to Cruikshank, this effect and the hyperactive appearance of the character are achieved by speeding up the video.

Please, welcome Fred and believe me, he’ll blow your mind away!!

Fred Goes Swimming

Fred Loses His Meds

Fred Runs for President!

I cant’t even decide which one of these is my favourite! And if you are interested, what kind of voice does Lucas has in life, here is an opportunity to have a look at the teem behind Fred:

Fred on CNN

Imagine that you were asked about your favourite late-night show. What would be your answer? PersonallyI I would not hesitate. Saturday Night Live - is a weekly 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show based in New York City that debuted on October 11, 1975. It features a regular cast of typically up-and-coming comic actors, joined by a guest host and musical act. The show — which is broadcasted live in the Central and Eastern time zones(with a time delay in the mountain time zone and pacific time zone) from Studio 8H at the GE Building in New York’s Rockefeller Center — has launched careers for many major American comedy stars of the last thirty years. SNL is one of the longest-running network programs in American television history.

But who did you like best on SNL? I love almost everyone there, but if someone put a gun to my head and for the life’s sake I would have to answer, I would not hesitate to name Chris Farley. Christopher Crosby (Chris Farley) was an American comedian and actor. He was a member at Chicago’s Second City Theatre and later went on to the cast of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He starred in a string of successful comedy films in the 1990s before his death of a drug overdose in late 1997.

Here is the compilation of SNL shows featuring Chris Farley:

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