And we happened to be filming in Toronto, which had just started its own green screen initiative.
In addition to individual computer stations, there is a green screen, editing room and music mixing station for them to create their own videos.
The celebrities handled the stunt driving, rather than using a green screen, to produce a more realistic performance and appealing aesthetic.
Today's fashion for green screen and chroma key is not so far removed from the back projection and studio sets of Hollywood's Golden Age.
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It wasn't long before everyone was making their own, virtual, appearance in Doctor Who as "green screen" technology allowed them to be placed in the set alongside the stars.
"We started out five or six years ago with a charity gig to raise money for amps and guitars for local kids to use, and today we've got a recording studio and green screen video capability, " he said.
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After a brief spray of notes, a white scrim fell, revealing the band members, each wearing a skintight bicycling outfit covered with luminescent white lines in a grid formation, as if they were being tracked on a green screen for later animation.
The crude green screen interface had fields that needed to be filled in for show titles and genres (effectively turning what would have been text into valuable metadata data about the data) as well as three summaries of different lengths for each show.
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Which was no different than the graphical user experience revolution of the 1980s: the green screen user experience began to look ancient the moment users became familiar with the much more usable and effective GUI experience, and a wholesale redesign of enterprise software was underway.
"It's normal television technology - chroma key, " he said referring to the green-screen backgrounds used to superimpose people against separately filmed scenes.
Just look at how fast information technology departments swung to servers connecting to PCs, shutting down mainframe and mini-computer data centers and wiping out thousands of green-screen terminals.
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But key will be whether Snyder can match "Watchmen's" dramatic beats against its green-screen chicanery for more than two hours (the Internet Movie Database lists the running time at 163 minutes).
Back in 2001 the company created a process called Green List to screen the chemicals in their products and substitute them with environmentally friendly alternatives.
The harbourside has long been under-utilised as an event space, and temporarily changing that is the Very Big Screen on the Green (7 to 13 December).
Zidlicky failed to get the puck out of his zone, and Green beat Brodeur trough a screen with a shot from the right point for his first goal of the season.
The reward is a big cluster of green leaves that appears on the dashboard screen.
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This screen also replaces the confusing green-tinted radarscopes that used to adorn cockpits by overlaying (in some configurations) weather and traffic information on the map.
Soon, Bell hopes, Penthouse Media Group will have a place on the screen and its bar will glow green.
The infrared part of the navigation system projects a green image of the terrain on to a screen in front of the pilot.
The screen is on show at the the FPD International Green Device 2010 trade-show in China, and is displayed naked alongside versions in a prototype "e-reader" and a small notebook.
The upcoming trio of films is a far cry from recent years when movies such as "Iron Man" and "Green Lantern" took a chance by introducing lesser-known superheroes on the big screen with very different results.
The Google Android team is represented by hundreds of developers donning bright green droid figurines on their shirts and lanyards, who stand by the side of flat screen displays ready to give any visitor an insightful demo on a featured Android app.
One of the major themes of Earth Week this year was lighting, as green lighting innovations ranging from the useful to the absurd made it onto Inhabitat's radar screen.
The report said Pinewood Studios "recognises" the plans would see development of the green belt but added the "development is needed to maintain and expand UK film, television and screen-based industries".
The report says Pinewood Studios "recognises" the plans would see development of the green belt but adds that the "development is needed to maintain and expand UK film, television and screen-based industries".
The T28 is equipped with a tiny (to today's standards) rectangular 1.4-inch monochrome screen (101 x 33 pixels or three lines of 12 characters) with a blue-ish green backlight.
Rather than remembering each pixel value as an address and three values for red, green, and blue (RGB), a program can check and discover that a whole region of the screen is the same color for the moment and simply say, for all the pixels between these two addresses, set them to these three values.
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