The Evolution Of Video Production

1. The Evolution Of Video Production By: Dylan Rowlee

2. Fact 1 If we go back several hundred years, we could say that the art form has its roots in the live performances of puppet shows performed behind a backlit screen where stories were told in black and whit shadow images to the audience viewing the front of the screen. To liken these “shadow shows” to todays motion pictures may seem a bit of a stretch, but once you understand the basic theory behind motion pictures as they are projected on a theater screen, you will realize just how alike they really are. http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071791361/0071791361_chap01.pdf

3. Fact 2 • The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". • Inventors.com

4. Fact 3 The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. Inventors.com

5. Fact 4 • The first Home Movies were made using film, celluloid, and the consumer film camera only came out for very special occasions. • 1995http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html

6. Fact 5 • When video arrived it was still a costly hobby or business the average camcorders ranged from $1,500-$2,300 and their footage was lacking in quality. • Inventors.com

7. Fact 6 • On the 19th of October 1968 the first animated moving picture was created • Inventors.com

8. Fact 7 • The Ampex VRX-1000 was the first video tape recorder made in 1956 • Inventors.com

9. Fact 8 • The first DV camcorder was the Sony Dcr-Vx-1000 introduced in 1995http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html

10. Fact 9 • 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

11. Fact 10 • The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. • Inventors.com

12. Fact 11 • The cinematography made motion pictures very popular, and the motion picture era. • http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corporate-video-production-part-2-7986040.html?cat=9

13. Fact 12 The Lumiere brothers were not the first to project film. In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the kinetiscope which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures. http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corporate-video-production-part-2-7986040.html?cat=9

14. Fact 13 • Later in 1896 Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projection in the U.S. http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corporate-video-production-part-2-7986040.html?cat=9

15. Fact 14 • Charles Ginsburg led the research team at Ampex Corporation in developing the first practical videotape recorder (VTR). In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic tape. • http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corporate-video-production-part-2-7986040.html?cat=9

16. Fact 15 Ampex sold the first VTR for $50,000 in 1956.The first VCassetteR or VCR were sold by Sony in 1971. Inventors.com

17. Fact 16 • One of the first digital video products to run on personal computers was PACo: The PICS Animation Compiler from The Company of Science & Art in Providence, RI, which was developed starting in 1990 and first shipped in May 1991. • http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corporate-video-production-part-2-7986040.html?cat=9

18. Fact 17 • The formula to re-create a live scene that is still used today is • 1. Take a very fine powder of silver salts and suspend it in gelatin to keep it from falling off the plastic base. This is called photographic emulsion. • 2. Expose the emulsion to light, focused through a lens, reflecting from a subject. The more light exposure there is, the more the silver salts react by tarnishing. • 3. Then, in a darkened room, subject the negative to various chemical baths to wash away the silver emulsion that is unexposed. • http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071791361/0071791361_chap01.pdf

19. Fact 18 Because this happens 24 times each second and the shutter is closed for only a fraction of the time, you aren’t aware of the dark between the frames. The light is what activates your vision, and each frame or picture stays on your retina while the theater is in darkness. This human phenomenon is known as persistence of vision, or image retention. You are not able to “see the dark parts” between projected frames. The brain seamlessly transitions from one frame to the next to give you the perception of motion on the screen. Pretty neat, eh? http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071791361/0071791361_chap01.pdf

20. Fact 19 • Richard L. Maddox a British physician invents the “dry-plate” process in 1871 using an emulsion of gelatin, so that photographers did not have to process the pictures immediately. • http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071791361/0071791361_chap01.pdf

21. Fact 20 Color film works exactly the same as black and white film except the color film has only three layers of emulsion. http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071791361/0071791361_chap01.pdf

22. Works Cited Page • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm • http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071791361/0071791361_chap01.pdf • http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html • http://www.videomaker.com/article/15575-the-history-of-video • http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history-corporate-video-production-part-2-7986040.html

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