VIDEO PRODUCTION TIMELINE By Alana Lindsey

First Picture Ever Taken The first picture ever taken, was by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.

THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH French inventor, Joseph Nicephore Niepce was credited for developing the world’s first successful photograph in the year, out.com/od/pstartin ventions/a/stilphoto graphy.htm out.com/od/pstartin ventions/a/stilphoto graphy.htm

Alexander Wolcott The first camera invented was made by Alexander Wolcott. His camera design was patented on May 8, His invention made it possible for candid photos to be taken and not fade away with time.

FIRST VIDEO 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” in 1867 by William Lincoln. library/inventors/blmotionpi ctures.htm library/inventors/blmotionpi ctures.htm

MONKEYSHINES NO. 1 It is believed, in 1890, to be the first film shot in the United States. Monkeyshines, No. 1 was shot by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison labs.

Auguste and Louis Lumière The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean, are credited to be the first filmmakers in history. The Lumières held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in lycinema.com/pioneers/ lumiere_bio.htmlhttp:// lycinema.com/pioneers/ lumiere_bio.html

THE FIRST HORROR FILM(19 TH CENTURY) Auguste & Louis Lumière: Le Squelette joyeux (1897) was the first horror film in the 19th century. history.com/index.php? pageID=1920s history.com/index.php? pageID=1920s

TELEVISION’S FIRST SUPER STAR Milton Berle started in show business at the age of five, appearing as a child in The Perils of Pauline and Tillie's Punctured Romance in /tv.ht m

FATHER OF FILM American film director, mostly remembered as the director of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance. -griffith

In the 1920s, American engineer, Philo Taylor Farnsworth devised the television camera, an image dissector, which converted the image captured into an electrical signal. ventors/blvideo.htm

STEAMBOAT WILLIE Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney. bject.php?object_id=89284http:// bject.php?object_id=89284

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin Russian-born American electronic engineer, inventor, and the father of modern television. He also developed a colour-television system, for which he received a patent in Zworykin

Frankenstein (1931 Film) "Frankenstein" is a film about a mad, obsessed scientist, Dr. Henry Frankenstein", who creates a monster, by taking body parts from dead people.

TV Camera at the 1936 Berlin Olympics The Berlin Summer Olympic Games are broadcast live by stations in Berlin and Hamburg in /tv.htm

President Franklin Roosevelt President Franklin Roosevelt's opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair is broadcast live from NBC's experimental station. 100/tv.htmhttp://www3.northern.edu/wild/th 100/tv.htm

Golden Age of Television The 12 year period between 1948 and 1960 is remembered for the variety show (Texaco Star Theatre), the sitcom (I Love Lucy) and the western (Gunsmoke). 0/tv.htm

FIRST COLOR TELEVISION CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program on June 25, om/od/1950s/qt/Color- TV.htm om/od/1950s/qt/Color- TV.htm

Charles P. Ginsburg Charles Ginsburg led the research team at Ampex Corporation in developing the first practical videotape recorder in ventors/blvideo.htm

FATHER OF RADIO "I discovered an Invisible Empire of the Air, intangible, yet solid as granite,“ was Lee de Forest’s Famous quote. He died June d/topic/153484/Lee-de-Forest

McDonald’s First Commercial Ronald McDonald was born in 1963, when weatherman Willard Scott played the deft- footed dancing clown in a series of television commercials. This was the first ever Ronald McDonald commercial. rst_ro.php

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