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.
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