Video Tech Timeline

1. Video Tech Timeline By: Ryan Hall

2. 1797 • John Thomas Smith became the first person to write down the rule of thirds

3. 1839 • First photograph was taken of people

4. 1878 • A series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse is known as the first motion picture • Made by Eadweard Muybridge

5. 1888 • First motion picture film camera was made by Louis Le Prince

6. 1899 • first animation movie was made by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper • Was called Matches: An Appeal

7. April 11, 1921 • first voice broadcast of a sporting event • Was a boxing match between Johnny Dundee and Johnny Ray

8. August 5, 1921 • First baseball game broadcasted on radio • Game was between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburg Pirates

9. 1922 • The power of Love became the first 3d film made

10. September 1, 1928 • First working television was demonstrated to the press by Philo Farnsworth

11. 1929 • Fox introduced the first 70 mm film format

12. May 17, 1939 • The first televised sporting event took place • It was a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers • Was broadcasted by NBC

13. August 26, 1939 • First baseball game is televised on station W2XBS • Game was between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

14. September 30, 1939 • First televised football game • Between Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham rams

15. February 25, 1940 • First hockey game was televised from Madison Square Garden • Game was between New York Rangers and Montreal Canadians

16. February 28, 1940 • First basketball game was televised from Madison Square Garden • The game was between Fordham and the University of Pittsburg

17. July 1, 1941 • Worlds first commercial was made • Came on before a New York Yankee baseball game • Commercial was for Bulova watches

18. Later on July 1, 1941 • First quiz show was broadcasted on WNBT • Show was called Uncle Bee and was hosted by Ralph Edwards

19. 1951 • First successful videotape recorder was made by Ampex

20. February 28, 1960 • First time the Olympics was televised live in the U.S. • It was broadcasted by CBS

21. September 26, 1960 • John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon presidential debate was the first one broadcasted on TV

22. May 22, 1971 • First IMAX theatre to open permanently

23. September 1971 • First video cassette, the Sony-U-matic system, was made in Tokyo

24. 1975 • First digital camera was made by Steve Sasson

25. 1978 • First green screen was created

26. July 23, 1996 • First digital broadcast was made • Was broadcasted by a CBS affiliate of Raleigh, North Caroilna

27. 1997 • First DVD was created by Phillips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic

28. March 31, 1998 • First commercial broadcast for a sporting event was made

29. January 30, 2000 • First sporting event broadcast in HD was Super Bowl XXXIV • Game was between the St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans

30. June 2006 • First blu-ray discs were made

31. February 5, 2012 • Most watched primetime broadcast in the U.S. was of Super Bowl XLVI