By: Khyla Lewis

  The first pinhole camera (also called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham)

  Johann Heinrich Schultz discovered the silver and chalk method in The sliding box could capture images by using a mixture of silver and chalk exposed under a light source

  Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded

  Alexander Wolcott was the inventor of the first camera

  Henry Fox Talbot discovered the calotype process (an early photographic process in which negatives were made using paper coated with silver iodide.) 

  Panoramic camera patented - the Sutton. m 1859

  Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer

  George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in His first Kodak box camera was very simple and very cheap

  First in color movie made my Edward Turner a British photographer. movie-found-britain-national-media-museum-bradford-article

  The first animated cartoon is produced. e 1906

  The first 35mm still camera (also called candid camera ) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras

  General Electric invents the modern flash bulb. m 1927

  Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute

  First Video Recorder: The Ampex Corporation used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists during World War II to create the first video tape recorder, the Ampex VRX equipment.html 1956

  The Electronics Engineering Company (EECO) developed the first time code for electronic editing. history-of-videotape-editing 1967

  CMX 600. This refrigerator-sized editor could store up to five minutes of black-and-white, low-resolution video on magnetic disk drives. It allowed the operator to access video scenes from the magnetic disk drives, immediately and in any order, to create an edit-decision list from which the system would construct the final master. suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of-videotape-editing 1971

 1973  The time-base corrector (TBC) was able to take the signals from non-broadcast quality VCRs and correct the variations in the high speed scanning and timing pulse. time-the-history-of-videotape-editing

 1978  Konica introduces first point-and- shoot, autofocus camera. m

  Sony demonstrates first consumer camcorder. m 1980

  Matsushita introduced a much-improved version of VHS, called S-VHS. This high-quality format found its niche in smaller broadcast stations, business and industry, and soon began to replace the 3/4- inch U- matic machines. once-upon-a-time-the-history-of-videotape-editing 1987