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Video Production Timeline. By: Kaitlyn Barth. 1623. A German Astronomer, invented the first mechanical calculating machine in 1623 which we now call the computer. 1840.
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Video ProductionTimeline By: Kaitlyn Barth
1623 • A German Astronomer, invented the first mechanical calculating machine in 1623 which we now call the computer.
1840 • The first camera was invented May 8, 1840 by Alexander Wolcott. Photographs were taken prior to that, But it really wasn’t a camera to take photographs.
1867 • The first machine to show animated pictures or movies was a device called the “Wheel of Life” in 1867 by William Lincoln.
1876 • The first microphone was invented in 1876 by Emile Berliner for Alexander Graham Bell . This was used as a telephone voice transmitter.
1895 • Frenchman Louis Lumiere invented the first motion picture camera in 1895. He invented a portable motion picture camera, which is a film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe.
1897 • The first television camera was invented in 1897.
1906-1920 • Color film began as early as 1906, but wasn’t as perfect until 1920.
1906 • Montreal opened one of the very first movie theaters in the world in 1906.
1923 • The Walt Disney Company was founded October 16,1923
1933 • The first sound system was made in 1933 by Alan Dower Blumlein.
1951 • The world’s first demonstration of the video tape was November 11, 1951 by Bing Crosby.
1956 • The first digital video camera was invented April 14, 1956 by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson.
1956 • The first video tape recorder was introduced in 1956 by German scientists in World War II
1975 • The first commercially professional video cassette recorder (VCR) was introduced in 1975.
1977 and 1979 • Nickelodeon was founded on December 1,1977 as (Pinwheel) then later changed the name to what we now call Nickelodeon.
1982 • The first computer based teleprompter appeared in 1982.
1900s • Hitachi introduced the MDV (Mini-Digital Video) cassette in the 1900s for higher quality images.
1990 • The first projected sound film came out in 1990 in Paris. Sound film was a motion picture with sound which opposed silent film.
1992 • On October 1,1992 at approximately 12 p.m ET, Cartoon Network was launched as an outlet for Turner’s considerable library of animation.
1995 • The first digital camera was invented in 1995 for video quality at home.
1996 • The first DVD video format was introduced by Toshiba in November 1996.
1997 • The DVD discs were released in 1997 shortly after the video tape for the VCR became a thing of the past.