TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTIONBy: Addison Morgan

1860

Tearliest known recording was created by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the inventor of the phonautograph. The recordings were not intended for listening; the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be deciphered. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered in March 2008 in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians.

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1874

Ernst W. Siemens was the first to describe the "dynamic" or moving-coil transducer, with a circular coil of wire in a magnetic field and supported so that it could move axially. He filed his U. S. patent application for a "magneto-electric apparatus" for "obtaining the mechanical movement of an electrical coil from electrical currents transmitted through it".

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1876-1877

Alexander G. Bell patented the telephone - the first electrical device for audible transmission.

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1876

The first patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called “wheel of life” or “zoopraxiscope”. Patnented in 1876 by William Licoln, moving photographs or drawings were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera.

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1876-1878

Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, which uses an engraved wax cylinder that rotates against a stylus.

Ernest W. Siemens granted patent for a nonmagnetic parchment diaphragm as the sound radiator of a moving-coil transducer. The diaphragm could take the form of a cone, with an exponentially flaring "morning glory" trumpet form. This is the first patent for the loudspeaker horn that would be used on most phonographs players in the acoustic era.

The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle.“

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1884

1884- George Eastman invents flexible photographic film.

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1887

1887- Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

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1888

1888- Edison attempts to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder.

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1891-1895

1891-1895- Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures using Edison's kineograph, his motion picture camera.

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1895

1895- First public demonstration of motion pictures displayed in France.

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1913