THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION

1. THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION By: Jordan O’Donald

2. Fact 1 • The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton in 1859 • http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

3. Fact 2 • In 1877Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, which uses an engraved wax cylinder that rotates against a stylus • http://amplioaudio.blogspot.com/2007/05/short-history-of-audiovideo-technology.html

4. Fact 3 • The first motion picture ever made was ‘ The Horse In Motion’ in 1878 • http://voices.yahoo.com/the-first-movie-ever-made-history-film-firsts-679245.html

5. Fact 4 • First short motion pictures arrived in the 1890s • http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

6. Fact 5 • This first phase of the motion pictures, in the late 1890s and into the 1900s, emphasized reproducing human motion • http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

7. Fact 6 • Griffith and others in the industry wanted to move beyond the simple formula that characterized the industry in the early 1900s • http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

8. Fact 7 • ‘The House of Wax’ was the first 3D movie ever made, it was released in 1953 • http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-color-3-d-film-opens

9. Fact 8 • The Ampex Corporation used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists during World War II to create the first video tape recorder, the Ampex VRX-1000, introduced in 1956 • http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html\

10. Fact 9 • Introduced in 1956, 2" quadruplex was the first commercially viable professional broadcast video format to secure it's position in Video History • http://www.videointerchange.com/video-history.htm

11. Fact 10 • By 1958, an estimated 3700 feature films had been sold or leased to TV for an estimated $220 million • http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

12. Fact 11 • The RCA Company led production of early video production equipment in the United States and invented the first handheld mobile video production camera, the TK-44, in 1972 • http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html

13. Fact 12 • Sony introduced its Betamax half inch home video cassette recorder (VCR) in 1975 • http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sony+to+discontinue+production+of+Betamax-type+VCRs.-a091081508

14. Fact 13 • The first commercially available video cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975 • http://www.simon.rochester.edu/fac/raith/RaithTeaching/STR421%20Spring07/Readings/Video%20Cassette%20Rcorder.pdf

15. Fact 14 • By the mid 1980s, the home video revolution had swept the country

16. Fact 15 • The first talking movie was demonstrated by Thomas Edison using his Kinetophoneprocess in 1913 • http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-sound-recording

17. Fact 16 • Vladimir Zworykin, Russian, developed the first workable TV camera in 1923 • http://inventors.about.com/od/xzstartinventors/a/Zworykin.htm

18. Fact 17 • EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy in 1960 • http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

19. Fact 18 • Sony Corporation sells the first direct-view portable television in 1960 • http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sony.net%2FSonyInfo%2FCorporateInfo%2FHistory%2Fsonyhistory-c.html&ei=YDtpUpyRHuLh2wWx5ID4CA&usg=AFQjCNFvf4LDiDdgRb5NOFkyhS4pdvTasQ

20. Fact 19 • Sony introduced the CV-2000 VTR in 1964 and was released in the US in 1965 • http://avengers-in-time.blogspot.com/2012/02/1965-science-and-technology-sony-cv.html

21. Fact 20 • The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced in 1995 • http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sony+Ships+Digital+Handycam+Camcorders%3B+First+Digital+Camcorders...-a017465825