Video Timeline

By: Cade Thompson

1500

• May 11th, 1500, the Greek and Chinese based ideas for a camera.

1727

• May 11th, 1727, Johann Heinrich discovered silver nitrate.

1826

• The first camera was made on January, 1826.

1826

• The first permanent picture was taken from obscura in 1826.

1878

• British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move in 1878.

1888

• Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second in 1888.

1889

• Thomas Edison and W.K. Dickson develop the Kinetoscope, a peep-show device in which film is moved past a light.

1893

• Edison constructs the first motion picture studio in New Jersey.

1895

• In Paris, they present the first commercial exhibition of projected motion pictures by two French brothers that patented a combination of a movie camera and projector.

1905

• Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon in Pittsburgh.

1906

• The first animated cartoon is produced.

1925

• The first inflight movie, a black & white, silent film called The Lost World, is shown in a WWI converted Handley-Page bomber during a 30-minute flight near London.

1910

• Los Angeles annexes Hollywood.

1922

• Lee DeForrest demonstrates a method for recording sound on the edge of a film strip.

1925

• Western Electric and Warner Bros. agree to develop a system for movies with sound.

1926

• Warner Bros.'s Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, contains music but not spoken dialogue.

1946

• On October 24, 1946 the first picture of Earth from space was taken from a V-2 rocket.

1951

• In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic tape.

1964

• In 1964, research on high-definition TV beginsstudy of satellite broadcasting begins

1969

• In 1969, the first exhibition of high-definition TV study at STRL open house.

1981

• In 1981, a test manufacture of 1-inch tape VCR for high-definition TV starts.

1986

• Digital video was first introduced commercially in 1986 with the Sony D1 format.

1990

• On April 24th , 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched.

1999

• March 3rd, 1999 the first HDTV was created.