BY: Drew Woodman

History of video production

invents flexible photographic film.

George Eastman 1884

patents motion picture camera.

Thomas Edison 1887

Thomas Edison attempts to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder.

Thomas Edison attempts to record picture photos 1888

He did it using Thomas Edison's kineograph, his motion picture camera.

Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures 1891 - 1895

first public demonstration of motion pictures displayed in France.

First public demonstration 1895

Development of the Cathode Ray Tube by Ferdinand Braun.

Cathode Ray Tube 1897

Use of cathode ray tube to produce television images.

The Use of cathode ray tube 1907

Patent for the iconoscope, the forerunner of the picture tube.

Patent for the iconoscope 1923

Talking films begin with Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer".

Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer"1927

They conducts black and white broadcasting experiments.

RCA Early 1930’s

Was made available in London.

First television broadcast 1936

Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi

1938

in the country and only nine stations on the air; three in New York, two each in Chicago and Los Angeles, and one each in Philadelphia and Schenectady, N.Y.

1945

officially becomes the abc network. A 1941 FCC ruling required RCA to divest itself of one of its two networks; NBC Blue was sold in 1943 to Edward Noble for $8 million, and becomes ABC in 1945

1946

a children's series, premieres live on NBC in December as a one-hour Saturday program. Symbolic of the first generation nurtured on TV, the show remains on the air until 1960.

1947

(originally "Toast of the Town") makes its debut in June. Sponsored by Lincoln-Mercury, the show becomes one of TV's longest-running and most successful variety series. The show airs on CBS into 1971, spurring the advancement of scores of show business careers.

1948

Arthur Godfrey for CBS, Ted Steele for DuPont, Milton Berle and Harry Richman for NBC, and for ABC a mystery show called "Stand By for Crime." The event moves Chicago Tribune to report: "The end of dull sustaining filler on television screens appears to be in sight."

1949

for TV at record rates, moving Variety to describe the exodus as "the greatest exhibition of mass hysteria in biz annals."

1950

one of commercial TV's most honored cultural series, debuts. Hosted by Alistair Cooke, the program takes in $5.5 million in advertising revenues during five years on the air, against $8.5 million in costs.

1951

ratifies a new television code establishing guidelines for content and addressing the concerns of social critics. Nearly half the code is devoted to advertising.

1952

Color broadcasting officially arrives in the U.S. on Dec. 17, when FCC approves modified version of an RCA system.

1953