Timeline of the History of Video ProductionBy: Nick Graves

First Camera The first camera ever made was made in 1827. The inventors took a picture of the camera itself

using two mirrors.

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm

First Machine to Show Animated Pictures

The first machine to show an animated picture was the “wheel of life,” or “zoopraxiscope.”

It was patented in 1867 by William Lincoln. It was a far cry from the motion capture pictures we

have today.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

First “Moving” Photograph The first motion photograph ever documented was

“The Horse in Motion.” (1882) It consisted of a horse running. That’s it. It was made by using multiple cameras and putting

them together to make the illusion of movement.

http://headsup.boyslife.org/what-was-the-first-movie-ever-made/

Motion Picture Camera In 1887 Thomas Edison invented another of his

impressive inventions. He made the very first motion picture camera.

http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm

Public Sees Motion Pictures In 1895, the public saw motion pictures for the first time. This happened in France at a public demonstration.

http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm

First Movie Theater The first movie theater to ever show exclusively

movies was the Nickelodeon. It opened in 1905.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4707873

Lighting Techniques Realized

D. Griffith did lots of experiments with lighting techniques.

By 1910, the techniques he used defined the techniques we use today.

http://jlbmedia.com/video-production-history

First Film with Sound

The first film with sound was Don Juan. It was made in 1926. It used the “vitaphone” sound-on-disk system to

capture the sound.

http://www.spannerworks.net/reference/10_3a.asp

First Film with Dialogue Shortly after the movie don Juan (first movie with

sound), this movie was created. The Jazz Singer used the same vitaphone system,

and was made in 1927.

http://www.spannerworks.net/reference/10_3a.asp

Watching Film Become Popular Although the making of film started near the late

1860’s it didn’t become popular until much later. By 1930, movie production was finally becoming a

large industry.

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-producer1.htm

First Film with Color

The first ever film with color was “Becky Sharp.” It was made in 1935, and the people making the

movie had to color each individual square of film.

http://www.aboutfilmschools.com/study/history.asp

First Professionally Recorded Sports Event

The first sporting event to be professionally recorded and then broadcast onto television was the 1936 Olympics.

Over 72 hours of footage were shot.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/tv-and-culture/first-televised-sporting-event.htm

First Live Television Broadcast

The first ever recording that was broadcast directly from a camera to televisions sets was an episode of “Howdy Doody.”

It was a children's show which premiered in 1947. It looks terrifying…

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First Ever Recorded Space Launch

In 1961, the first recording of a launch into space occurred.

The American MR-3 (also called Freedom 7) launched into space and was recorded doing so.

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mr-3/mr-3.htm

Color Film Becomes Easily Implemented into Televisions

By the 1960,s, the technology used to provide colored film became extremely accessible.

By 1965, a vast amount of television sets were colored.

http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm

First Commercially Available Cassette Recorder

The first cassette recorder available to the general public was the Sony Betamax.

It was made in 1975.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html

First Digital Video Recorder The first ever digital recorder was the Sony D-1. It was in stores in the year 1995.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html

First Video Camera Implemented in a Cell Phone

By the 2000’s, camera technology had come so far, it could shrink down to a small enough size to fit in a cell phone.

The Nokia 7650 was the first camera phone available to the public (2002).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/5-major-moments-in-cellphone-history-1.1407352

Cameras can Record in HD By 2008, cameras could record in HD, or high

definition. This made the image on screen look more clear, and

soon, HD would be on almost every screen made.

http://amplioaudio.blogspot.com/2007/05/short-history-of-audiovideo-technology.html

3-D Arrives By 2010, video production technology had come so far

that the ability to film in 3 dimensions was possible. Today, a large amount of movies and TV sets come in

3-D.

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