Timeline of the History of Video Production

1. Timeline of the History of Video Production By Shelby Martin

2. 1889 • In 1889, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, built the first motion picture camera and named it the Kinetograph. • http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html

3. 1894 • In 1894, the first motion-picture studio, nicknamed the Black Maria, is established by the Edison Corporation. • http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html

4. 1895 • In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere invent Cinematograph, a combination camera and projector. • http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html

5. 1903 • In 1903, the Edison Corporation mechanic, Edwin S. Porter turns cameraman, director, and producer to make the great train robbery. • With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes the shot as film’s basic element being the first western movie. • http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html

6. 1911 • In 1911, the first feature film is released when the two reels of D.W. Griffith’s Enoch Arden are screened together. • http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html

7. 1913 • In 1913, the first “talking movie” is demonstrated by Thomas Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.] • http://amplioaudio.blogspot.com/2007/05/short-history-of-audiovideo-technology.html

8. 1926 • In 1926, John Logie Baird was the first person to have a system of the television out on the market. • http://www.cedmagic.com/history/baird-mech-television-1926.html

9. 1929 • In 1929, Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin made two inventions. First he made the Iconoscope, which was essentially a rudimentary video camera. Then he made the kinescope, precursor to the modern television tube. • http://www.cedmagic.com/history/kinescope-zworykin-1929.html

10. 1946 • In 1946, the RCA 630TS is considered the “Model T” of postwar televisions. • http://www.cedmagic.com/history/kinescope-zworykin-1929.html

11. 1952 • In 1952, they developed 3-D movies. • http://www.leavealegacytoday.com/the-history-of-photography-and-videography.html

12. 1953 • In 1953, after World War II, broadcast T.V. was well established. The show lineup in 1953 included the first instance of interactive T.V. The show was called Winky Dink and You. • http://www.cedmagic.com/history/kinescope-zworykin-1929.html

13. 1955 • In 1955, initial color T.V.’s promoted some enterprising companies to implement a mechanical conversion of B&W TV to color. • http://www.cedmagic.com/history/rca-converted-color-tv.html

14. 1959 • In 1959, Nikon introduces its first single lens reflex camera. It became the most advanced camera of its time. • http://www.leavealegacytoday.com/the-history-of-photography-and-videography.html

15. 1960 • In 1960, EG&G develops an underwater camera that functions at extreme depths. • http://www.leavealegacytoday.com/the-history-of-photography-and-videography.html

16. 1980 • In 1980, Sony introduces the first consumer camcorder. • http://www.leavealegacytoday.com/the-history-of-photography-and-videography.html

17. 1984 • In 1984, Sony releases the first digital camera – the first electronic still camera. • http://www.leavealegacytoday.com/the-history-of-photography-and-videography.html

18. 1985 • In 1985, the first digital imaging processor is introduced by Pixar, innovatively using computer algorithms to perform image proccesing on digital images. • http://www.leavealegacytoday.com/the-history-of-photography-and-videography.html

19. 1990 • In 1990, Kodak introduces the first photo CD player. • http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1990-1999.html

20. 1991 • In 1991, the Motion Picture Assoc. said that only 16% of American movies are fit for kids under the age of 13. • http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1990-1999.html

21. 1996 • In 1996, web-TV tunes television sets to the Internet via TV-set-top box. • http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/timeline/1990-1999.html