By: Emma Wolf

1727:  Johann H. Schulze, a German physicist, discovers that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light. 

1827:  The first still photograph was taken.  x.html x.html

1832:  Earliest animation.  y-of-film-and-video-production y-of-film-and-video-production

1839:  Henry Fox Talbot makes an important advancement in photograph production with the introduction of negatives on paper - as opposed to glass.  x.html x.html

1846:  Important in the development of motion pictures was the invention of intermittent mechanisms.  x.html#top x.html#top

1878  British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move. 

1882:  Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second. 

1889:  Edison travels to Paris and views Marey's camera which uses flexible film. Dickson then acquires some Eastman Kodak film stock and begins work on a new type.  ml ml

1891:  Thomas Edison invented the first camera to ever record.  y-of-film-and-video-production y-of-film-and-video-production

1900:  First video was made with sound.  y-of-film-and-video-production y-of-film-and-video-production

1895:  In March of 1895, Robert W. Paul and his partner Birt Acres had a functional camera which was based partly on Marey's 1888 camera.  tml tml Birt Acres Robert W. Paul

1903:  Edwin S. Porter helps to shift film production toward story telling with films such as The Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery. 

1905:  First film with color is produced.  y-of-film-and-video-production y-of-film-and-video-production

1951:  The first video tape recorder captured live images from TV cameras.  s/blvideo.htm s/blvideo.htm

1956:  The first videotape recorder was sold for $50,000 by Ampex.  s/blvideo.htm s/blvideo.htm

1960:  First computer animations.  y-of-film-and-video-production y-of-film-and-video-production

1971:  The first videocassette recorder (VCR) was sold by Sony in  s/blvideo.htm s/blvideo.htm

1984:  Laser film was a videodisc format developed by McDonnell-Douglas. 

1987:  1987 Half of U.S. homes receive cable television. 

2000:  Corporate video production had become a worldwide phenomenon.  corporate-video-production-part html corporate-video-production-part html