Evolution of Video Production

1. Evolution of Video Production

2. Fact 1: • 1826- Nicephor Niepce, a French Inventor, produces a permanent image. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

3. Fact 2: • 1836- A French inventor, Louis Daguerre, a French inventor developed the first practical method of photography. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

4. Fact 3: • 1837- The first photograph is made. • http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/firstphotograph/

5. Fact 4: • 1839- The word, “Photograph” was first used by Sir John F.W. • www.ngca.co.uk/docs/Alice-Hawkins-Teachers-noted-and-activities.

6. Fact 5: • 1840- Lenses are developed for portrait and landscape photograph’s with sharper images by Hungarian mathematician, Joseph M. Petsval. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

7. Fact 6: • 1843- First advertisement with a photograph was made in Philadelphia.

8. Fact 7: • 1867- The first machine that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the, “Zoopraxiscope”. It was patented by an American named William Lincoln. • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

9. Fact 8: • 1871- The “dry plate” process was invented so that photographers did not have to process pictures immediately. It was invented by a British physician named Richard L. Maddox. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

10. Fact 9: • 1887- Hannibal W. Godwin invents film. George Eastman buys the invention and begins mass producing it. • http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/431.html

11. Fact 10: • 1888- The lightweight, inexpensive Kodak camera is introduced by George Eastman. • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

12. Fact 11: • 1888- Edison attempts to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder. • http://www.onalaska.k12.wi.us.ohs/History.htm

13. Fact 12: 1889- Commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, William Kennedy builds the first motion picture camera and names is Kinetograph. http://libraryschool.libguidescms.com/MotionPictures

14. Fact 13: 1891- The Edison company demonstrated the Kinetograph. It enabled one person at a time to view motion pictures. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors=motionhpictures.htm

15. Fact 14: • 1895- The first private screening was held by brothers, Auguste and Louis Lumiere. The brothers invented the Cinematograph, a combination of a camera and projector. • http://libraryschool.libguidescms.com/

16. Fact 15: • 1896- Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector. It was the first successful projector in the U.S. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors=motionhpictures.htm

17. Fact 16: • 1905- The first movie theatre opens in Pittsburg. • http://www.infoplase.com/

18. Fact 17: • 1917- Technicolor is introduced. • http://www.nryant.edu/~edu/h364proj/fall_97/barcelos/timeline.htm

19. Fact 18: • 1922- the radio is invented and becomes preferred over silent films. The film industry begins to decline. • http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364/materials/cars/cars%20_30.htm

20. Fact 19: • 1930- 1940- Motion pictures were at their peak during this time. • http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364/materials/cars/cars%20_30.htm

21. Fact 20: • 1946- Motion picture industry was over ruled by film studios. • http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364/materials/cars/cars%20_30.htm`