History of Video Production

HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION

By: Emma Wolf

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

1827: The first still photograph was taken.

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1832: Earliest animation. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor

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1839: Henry Fox Talbot makes an important

advancement in photograph production with the introduction of negatives on paper - as opposed to glass.

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1846: Important in the development of motion

pictures was the invention of intermittent mechanisms.

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1878 British photographer Eadweard

Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.

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1882: Etienne Marey in France develops a

camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second.

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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.

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1891: Thomas Edison invented the first camera

to ever record. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor

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1900: First video was made with sound. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor

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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.

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Birt Acres Robert W. Paul

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.

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1905: First film with color is produced. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor

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1951: The first video tape recorder captured

live images from TV cameras. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor

s/blvideo.htm

1956: The first videotape recorder was sold for

$50,000 by Ampex. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor

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1960: First computer animations. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor

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1971: The first videocassette recorder (VCR)

was sold by Sony in 1971. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor

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1984: Laser film was a videodisc format

developed by McDonnell-Douglas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserfilm

1987: 1987 Half of U.S. homes receive cable

television. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

2000: Corporate video production had become

a worldwide phenomenon. http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corpo

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