Timeline of the History of Video Production

1. Timeline of the History of Video Production By: Dalton Green

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. 1780 • Carl Scheele, a Swedish chemist, shows that the changes in the color of the silver salts could be made permanent through the use of chemicals http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

4. 1826 • A French inventor, NicephoreNiepce, produces a permanent image by coating a metal plate with a light-sensitive chemical and exposing the plate to light for about eight hours http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

5. 1830 • Louis Daguerre, a French inventor, develops the first practical method of photography by placing a sheet of silver-coated copper treated with crystals of iodine inside a camera and exposing it to an image for 5 to 40 minutes. Vapors from heated mercury developed the image and sodium thiosulfate made the image permanent. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

6. 1867 • Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

7. 1868 • First animated moving picture. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

8. 1897 • First television camera. http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html#ixzz2fRSRhB6J

9. 1895 • First motion pictures project. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

10. 1905 Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone, which makes talkies a reality.Movie Timeline | Infoplease.comhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html#ixzz2fRUshlr7

11. 1905 • The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh.Movie Timeline | Infoplease.comhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html#ixzz2fRUshlr7

12. 1913 • First talking movie was made. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

13. 1920 • In the 1920s, American engineer, Philo Taylor Farnsworth devised the television camera, an image dissector, which converted the image captured into an electrical signal. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

14. 1926 • First showing of television. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

15. 1956 • 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#ixzz2fRSmpY7P

16. 1956 • Ampex sold the first VTR for $50,000 in 1956. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

17. 1968 • Announced first ratings . You could be 16 to watch a “R” rated movie and an “X” rated movie. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-about-film-and-video

18. 1971 • The first VCassetteR or VCR were sold by Sony in 1971. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

19. 1975 • The first commercially available video cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975.http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html#ixzz2fRSRhB6J

20. 1976 • Video tape in a large cassette format introduced by both JVC and Panasonic around 1976. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

21. 1981 • The still video or digital camera (the Sony Mavica single-lens reflex) was first demonstrated in 1981. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm