HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION BY: ANNA MORGAN

1500`S The pinhole camera was invented by the Chinese in the 1500’s but was thought of way before that html html

1727 Johann Schulze, a German physicists, discovered that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light

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

1887 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

1888 George Eastman introduces the lightweight, inexpensive Kodak camera, using film wound on rollers.

Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures using Edison's motion picture camera

1897 The first television camera employed early versions of the cathode ray tube invented in

1907 Use of cathode ray tube to produce television images

1938 Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi in

1951 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. ‎ CachedSimilar ‎ CachedSimilar

1995 The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced in

1953 Color broadcasting officially arrives in the U.S. on Dec

1956 The video camera as it is known today is able to record images and sound. The first demonstration of this capability took place on 14 April Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson invented the first machine to record both images and sound. ‎

1964 Sony EV format CLB 1B Portable video device Developed by sony ‎ ‎

1972 The RCA Company led production of early video production equipment in the United States and invented the first handheld mobile video production camera, the TK- 44, in

1973 Capacitance Electronic Disc First disc to store video Developed by RCA ‎ ‎

1975 The first commercially available video cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in

1976 VHS Stored a few hours of video and was mostly used for movies Developed by RCA ‎ ‎

1977 Laser production This was early DVD format Developed by Philips, MCA, and pioneer ‎ ‎

1980’S Camcorders became available to the general public in the 1980s ‎