1. Timeline of the History of Video Production
By Shelby Martin

2. 1889
In 1889, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, built the first motion picture camera and named it the Kinetograph.

3. 1894
In 1894, the first motion-picture studio, nicknamed the Black Maria, is established by the Edison Corporation.

4. 1895
In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere invent Cinematograph, a combination camera and projector.

5. 1903
In 1903, the Edison Corporation mechanic, Edwin S. Porter turns cameraman, director, and producer to make the great train robbery.
With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes the shot as film’s basic element being the first western movie.

6. 1911
In 1911, the first feature film is released when the two reels of D.W. Griffith’s Enoch Arden are screened together.

7. 1913
In 1913, the first “talking movie” is demonstrated by Thomas Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.]

8. 1926
In 1926, John Logie Baird was the first person to have a system of the television out on the market.

9. 1929
In 1929, Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin made two inventions. First he made the Iconoscope, which was essentially a rudimentary video camera. Then he made the kinescope, precursor to the modern television tube.

10. 1946
In 1946, the RCA 630TS is considered the “Model T” of postwar televisions.

11. 1952 In 1952, they developed 3-D movies.

12. 1953
In 1953, after World War II, broadcast T.V. was well established. The show lineup in 1953 included the first instance of interactive T.V. The show was called Winky Dink and You.

13. 1955
In 1955, initial color T.V.’s promoted some enterprising companies to implement a mechanical conversion of B&W TV to color.

14. 1959
In 1959, Nikon introduces its first single lens reflex camera. It became the most advanced camera of its time.

15. 1960
In 1960, EG&G develops an underwater camera that functions at extreme depths.

16. 1980 In 1980, Sony introduces the first consumer camcorder.

17. 1984
In 1984, Sony releases the first digital camera – the first electronic still camera.

18. 1985
In 1985, the first digital imaging processor is introduced by Pixar, innovatively using computer algorithms to perform image proccesing on digital images.

19. 1990 In 1990, Kodak introduces the first photo CD player.

20. 1991
In 1991, the Motion Picture Assoc. said that only 16% of American movies are fit for kids under the age of 13.

21. 1996
In 1996, web-TV tunes television sets to the Internet via TV-set-top box.