Video ProductionTimeline

By: Kaitlyn Barth

1623

A German Astronomer, invented the first mechanical calculating machine in 1623 which we now call the computer.

1840

The first camera was invented May 8, 1840 by Alexander Wolcott. Photographs were taken prior to that, But it really wasn’t a camera to take photographs.

1867

The first machine to show animated pictures or movies was a device called the “Wheel of Life” in 1867 by William Lincoln.

1876

The first microphone was invented in 1876 by Emile Berliner for Alexander Graham Bell . This was used as a telephone voice transmitter.

1895

Frenchman Louis Lumiere invented the first motion picture camera in 1895. He invented a portable motion picture camera, which is a film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.

1897

The first television camera was invented in 1897.

1906-1920

Color film began as early as 1906, but wasn’t as perfect until 1920.

1906

Montreal opened one of the very first movie theaters in the world in 1906.

1923

The Walt Disney Company was founded October 16,1923

1933

The first sound system was made in 1933 by Alan Dower Blumlein.

1951

The world’s first demonstration of the video tape was November 11, 1951 by Bing Crosby.

1956

The first digital video camera was invented April 14, 1956 by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson.

1956

The first video tape recorder was introduced in 1956 by German scientists in World War II

1975

The first commercially professional video cassette recorder (VCR) was introduced in 1975.

1977 and 1979

Nickelodeon was founded on December 1,1977 as (Pinwheel) then later changed the name to what we now call Nickelodeon.

1982

The first computer based teleprompter appeared in 1982.

1900s

Hitachi introduced the MDV (Mini-Digital Video) cassette in the 1900s for higher quality images.

1990

The first projected sound film came out in 1990 in Paris. Sound film was a motion picture with sound which opposed silent film.

1992

On October 1,1992 at approximately 12 p.m ET, Cartoon Network was launched as an outlet for Turner’s considerable library of animation.

1995

The first digital camera was invented in 1995 for video quality at home.

1996

The first DVD video format was introduced by Toshiba in November 1996.

1997

The DVD discs were released in 1997 shortly after the video tape for the VCR became a thing of the past.