Timeline of the History of Video Production

By: Dalton Green

1727 Johann H. Schulze, a German physicist,

discovers that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light.

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1780 Carl Scheele, a Swedish chemist, shows

that the changes in the color of the silver salts could be made permanent through the use of chemicals

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1826 A French inventor, Nicephore Niepce,

produces a permanent image by coating a metal plate with a light-sensitive chemical and exposing the plate to light for about eight hours

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1830 Louis Daguerre, a French inventor, develops the

first practical method of photography by placing a sheet of silver-coated copper treated with crystals of iodine inside a camera and exposing it to an image for 5 to 40 minutes. Vapors from heated mercury developed the image and sodium thiosulfate made the image permanent.

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1867 Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln,

moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope.

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1868 First animated moving picture.http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

1897 First television camera. http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html#ixzz2fRSRhB6J

1895 First motion pictures project.http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

1905Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone, which makes talkies a reality.

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1905 The first movie theater opens in 

Pittsburgh.

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1913 First talking movie was made.http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

1920 In the 1920s, American engineer, 

Philo Taylor Farnsworth devised the television camera, an image dissector, which converted the image captured into an electrical signal.

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1926 First showing of television.http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

1956 The Ampex Corporation used magnetic

tape technology pioneered by German scientists during World War II to create the first video tape recorder, the Ampex VRX-1000, introduced in 1956.

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1956 Ampex sold the first VTR for $50,000 in

1956.

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1968 Announced first ratings . You could be

16 to watch a “R” rated movie and an “X” rated movie.

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1971 The first VCassetteR or VCR were sold

by Sony in 1971.

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1975 The first commercially available video

cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975.

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1976 Video tape in a large cassette format

introduced by both JVC and Panasonic around 1976.

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1981 The still video or digital camera (the

Sony Mavica single-lens reflex) was first demonstrated in 1981.

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