Video Production Timeline By: Kyzia Johnson Video technology 5th Period Mr. Hardin

Fact 1 Nicephore Niepce was the first person to invent a photographic camera.

Fact 2 In 1951, the first video tape recorder captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic tape.

Fact 3 The first film ever made was “The Horse in Motion ” made in 1878, is often designated as the first.

Fact 4 French cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl is often referred to as “the father of the animated cartoon.” The legend goes that in in 1907, when motion pictures were reaching critical mass, the 50-year-old Cohl was walking down the street and spotted a poster for a movie clearly stolen from one of his comic strips. 

Fact 5 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. 

Fact 6 Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw") The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839.

Fact 7 Photographic cameras’ roots go deep. Everything started with the camera obscura, and continued with Daguerreotypes, 35mm cameras, digital cameras and camera phones. Now we offer you to learn more about the photo cameras ‘way’ through ages and generations of photographers. 1500 The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham).

Fact 8 1839 The Daguerreotype Camera was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the world’s most expensive cameras.

Fact 9 Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. 11 May 15005th-4th Centuries B.C

Fact 10 Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder 11 May 1980

Fact 11 The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". 

Fact 12 In the year 1872, a man named Eadweard Muybridge began experimenting on capturing moving images. This man placed twelve cameras on a race horse track, spread thread across the track, and attached the thread into contact with a camera's shutter. Once the horse ran across the track, it's legs broke the threads, causing the cameras to operate in sequence. The ending results were 12 photos showing a horse's gait. With an invention of his called the Zoopraxiscope, he was able to quickly project these images, creating what is known as motion photography and the first movie to ever exist.

Fact 13 In 1885, two men named George Eastman and William H. Walker developed the very first reel of film. Film was sensitized paper created with a gelatin emulsion. One year later it was replaced by celluloid, which was a synthetic plastic material invented in the 1870's which was used in the chemical compound cellulose nitrate.

Fact 14 The Kintegraph was created be Thomas Edison's British employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickenson. It was a machine that could capture a sequence of images which was similar to a camera only it automatically took a picture of the moving image every half second. The images were then placed in his other invention, the kintescope. This device had a motor and shutter mechanism that ran a loop of film past an electric light source. The spectator would then peer through a small window to see the moving image.

Fact 15 After these two inventions were created, the Lumiere brothers ( Auguste and Louis) created a light weight hand cranked mechanism called the Cinematographe. It could take pictures and could project large images quickly when it was linked with projecting equipment familiar from magic lantern shows.

Fact 16 With the Cinematographe invented, German, English, Italian, British, and American inventors were becoming "hot on their heels". The race to create the next big invention that could surpass everything created this far in the history of film was heating up. The transition of film into the 1900's was stimulated by the increasing competition among the many inventors, the easy reproducibility of film, the ability to use propaganda in cinema, and in general, it's overall appeal to growing cities.

Fact 17 These motion toys soon began competing with the magic lantern. Among the midst of all of the competition, the man who created the praxiniscope developed the praxiniscope theatre which was known later known as the Theater Optique. This device was basically the exact same thing as a praxiniscope only it utilized a lantern which was used to project the images onto a large screen, making it possible for an audience to watch.

Fact 18 The early 1940's was not a promising time for the American film industry, especially during the attack of Pear Harbor by the Japanese. However, during the years 1943 to 1946, film production rebounded and found it's profitable peak of efficiency due to the decrease of technical challenges and advancements in technology (i.e. special affects, sound recording, the use of color, and cinematography). These advancements in film technology made film more watchable and modern. Following the end of the war, the film industry raked in it's highest profits in the year 1946, with an all time high record in theatre attendance.

Fact 19 The new millennium was a turning point in film history with a strong use of special affects. Well into our second century of filmmaking, the medium of film has already documented remarkable achievements such as the invention of the blue ray disc and will continue to do so as time slowly ticks away. Unfortunately we cannot see into the future, so knowledge on what the new millennium will bring us in terms of film history will remain unknown for what seems like a long time. We already have advanced in several different ways such as the creation of the IMAX theatre, the blue ray disc (as mentioned above)HD discs and iPods and cell phones that can already play movies with just a click of a button.

Fact 20 During the first couple of years in the 1900's, it was a time of great discovery for film. In this time period, the use of editing, backdrops, and a different approach to the flow of time in cinema were all becoming more apparent.

Fact 21 The longest movie last 10 days.  It's called 'Modern Times Forever' and it's an experimental film that was projected on the side of the Stora Enso building in Helsinki, Finland.