1. By: Emma Wolf

2. 1727:  Johann H. Schulze, a German physicist, discovers that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

3. 1827:  The first still photograph was taken.  http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/inde x.html http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/inde x.html

4. 1832:  Earliest animation.  http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production

5. 1839:  Henry Fox Talbot makes an important advancement in photograph production with the introduction of negatives on paper - as opposed to glass.  http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/inde x.html http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/inde x.html

6. 1846:  Important in the development of motion pictures was the invention of intermittent mechanisms.  http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/inde x.html#top http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/inde x.html#top

7. 1878  British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

8. 1882:  Etienne Marey in France develops a camera, shaped like a gun, that can take twelve pictures per second.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

9. 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.  www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.ht ml www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.ht ml

10. 1891:  Thomas Edison invented the first camera to ever record.  http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production

11. 1900:  First video was made with sound.  http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production

12. 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.  http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.h tml http://www.earlycinema.com/timeline/index.h tml Birt Acres Robert W. Paul

13. 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.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

14. 1905:  First film with color is produced.  http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production

15. 1951:  The first video tape recorder captured live images from TV cameras.  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor s/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor s/blvideo.htm

16. 1956:  The first videotape recorder was sold for $50,000 by Ampex.  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor s/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor s/blvideo.htm

17. 1960:  First computer animations.  http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/histor y-of-film-and-video-production

18. 1971:  The first videocassette recorder (VCR) was sold by Sony in 1971.  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor s/blvideo.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventor s/blvideo.htm

19. 1984:  Laser film was a videodisc format developed by McDonnell-Douglas.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserfilm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserfilm

20. 1987:  1987 Half of U.S. homes receive cable television.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

21. 2000:  Corporate video production had become a worldwide phenomenon.  http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history- corporate-video-production-part-2- 7986040.html http://voices.yahoo.com/the-history- corporate-video-production-part-2- 7986040.html