History of Video Production

1. By: Emma Wolf History of Video Production

2. 1727: • Johann H. Schulze, a German physicist, discovers that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

3. 1827: • The first still photograph was taken. • http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

4. 1832: • Earliest animation. • http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production

5. 1839: • Henry Fox Talbot makes an important advancement in photograph production with the introduction of negatives on paper - as opposed to glass. • http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

6. 1846: • Important in the development of motion pictures was the invention of intermittent mechanisms. • http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html#top

7. 1878 • British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

8. 1882: • Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

9. 1889: • Edison travels to Paris and views Marey's camera which uses flexible film. Dickson then acquires some Eastman Kodak film stock and begins work on a new type. • www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html

10. 1891: • Thomas Edison invented the first camera to ever record. • http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production

11. 1900: • First video was made with sound. • http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production

12. 1895: • In March of 1895, Robert W. Paul and his partner Birt Acres had a functional camera which was based partly on Marey's 1888 camera. • http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.html Birt Acres Robert W. Paul

13. 1903: • Edwin S. Porter helps to shift film production toward story telling with films such as The Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

14. 1905: • First film with color is produced. • http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production

15. 1951: • The first video tape recorder captured live images from TV cameras. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

16. 1956: • The first videotape recorder was sold for $50,000 by Ampex. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

17. 1960: • First computer animations. • http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production

18. 1971: • The first videocassette recorder (VCR) was sold by Sony in 1971. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

19. 1984: • Laser film was a videodisc format developed by McDonnell-Douglas. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserfilm

20. 1987: • 1987 Half of U.S. homes receive cable television. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

21. 2000: • Corporate video production had become a worldwide phenomenon. • http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corporate-video-production-part-2-7986040.html