Timeline of the History of Video Production By: Alexis Huddleston

Fact 1 Alexander Wolcott invented the first camera. It was patented in However, the idea of making pictures was created by Joseph Nicephore Niepce. In 1826, Charles and Vincent Chevalier created the first camera that could take photos. Then in 1827, the Frenchman Joseph Niepce managed to make a photographic image. invented-the-very-first-camera-and-when

Fact 2 Philo Farnsworth Transmitted the first all-electronic image on television in arnsworth.htm

Fact 3 The panoramic camera was patented – The Sutton in /a/Photography.htm

Fact 4 Edison constructs the first motion picture studio in New Jersey in _chron.cfm

Fact 5 The first movie ever made was by The Lumiere Brothers.Auguste and Louis Lumiere were credited with the worlds first public film screening on December 28,1895.This showing was approximately ten short films that all together was about twenty minutes long.This film was held in the basement lounge of a Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. ors/blmotionpictures.htm

Fact 6 Produced by Thomas Edison but directed but directed and filmed by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter. It was a 12- minute-long silent film made in inrobbery.htm

Fact 7 Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon studio in Pittsburgh in ryonline/film_chron.cfm

Fact 8 In 1906 J. Stuart Blackton’s Released the first Three minute animation film. story-animated-films.htm

Fact 9 There were about 9,000 movie theaters in the U.S. in film_chron.cfm

Fact 10 Credits begin to appear at the beginning of motion pictures in film_chron.cfm

Fact 11 William Fox founds Fox filmCoorperation in 1915.Combining motion picture production,distrubution,and theaters. film_chron.cfm

Fact 12 The first African American owned studio, The Lincoln Motion Picture Studio, was founded in film_chron.cfm

Fact 13 Lee DeForrest demonstrates a method for recording sound on the edge of a film strip in film_chron.cfm

Fact 14 Vladimir Zworykin developed the first workable TV Camera in timeline.htm

Fact 15 Warner Bros. is established in One of the most famous company's to produce movies in America. film_chron.cfm

Fact 16 Mickey Mouse was introduced in 1928 as Steamboat Willie. film_chron.cfm

Fact 17 The Wizard of OZ was the first color movie that was produced in 1939 and it was 102 minutes long. /the-wizard-of-oz-google-doodle

Fact 18 Konica introduces the first auto focus camera in /a/Photography.htm

Fact 19 Sony demonstrates consumer camcorder on May 11, of-video-cameras

Fact 20 Photography comes from the Greek word photo which means light. http//inventors.about.com/od/pstartinvention s/a/stilphotography.htm