Important Dates in Video History By : Eric Sutton Teacher: Jimmy James Bob Hardin

First motion Picture Camera The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began with the invention of the motion picture camera.

No real Inventor of the first camera The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 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, three functions covered in one invention

Important Dates 1980 – Sony demonstrated the first consumer camcorder 1984 – cannon demonstrated the first digit electronic still camera

Cameras

Camera 5th-4th Centuries B.C. Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors. Isaac Newton 1727 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light.

Camera 1794 First Panorama opens, the forerunner of the movie house invented by Robert Barker Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. camera obscura 1837 Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure. Louis Daguerre'sdaguerreotype

Camera 1840 First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.Calotype 1843 First advertisement with a photograph made in Philadelphia.

Camera 1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process - images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.Collodion process 1859 Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer Photographs and photographic negatives are added to protected works under copyright.

Camera 1871 Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process - negatives no longer had to be developed immediately Eastman Dry Plate Company founded George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film. George Eastman