THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION By: Jordan O’Donald

Fact 1 The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton in 1859 http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

Fact 2 In 1877Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, which uses an engraved wax cylinder that rotates against a stylus http://amplioaudio.blogspot.com/2007/05/short-history-of-audiovideo-technology.html

Fact 3 The first motion picture ever made was ‘ The Horse In Motion’ in 1878 http://voices.yahoo.com/the-first-movie-ever-made-history-film-firsts-679245.html

Fact 4 First short motion pictures arrived in the 1890s http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

Fact 5 This first phase of the motion pictures, in the late 1890s and into the 1900s, emphasized reproducing human motion http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

Fact 6 Griffith and others in the industry wanted to move beyond the simple formula that characterized the industry in the early 1900s http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

Fact 7 ‘The House of Wax’ was the first 3D movie ever made, it was released in 1953 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-color-3-d-film-opens

Fact 8 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-1000, introduced in 1956 http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html\

Fact 9 Introduced in 1956, 2" quadruplex was the first commercially viable professional broadcast video format to secure it's position in Video History http://www.videointerchange.com/video-history.htm

Fact 10 By 1958, an estimated 3700 feature films had been sold or leased to TV for an estimated $220 million http://faculty.washington.edu/baldasty/JAN13.htm

Fact 11 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 1972 http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html

Fact 12 Sony introduced its Betamax half inch home video cassette recorder (VCR) in 1975 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sony+to+discontinue+production+of+Betamax-type+VCRs.-a091081508

Fact 13 The first commercially available video cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975 http://www.simon.rochester.edu/fac/raith/RaithTeaching/STR421%20Spring07/Readings/Video%20Cassette%20Rcorder.pdf

Fact 14 By the mid 1980s, the home video revolution had swept the country

Fact 15 The first talking movie was demonstrated by Thomas Edison using his Kinetophone process in 1913 http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-sound-recording

Fact 16 Vladimir Zworykin, Russian, developed the first workable TV camera in 1923 http://inventors.about.com/od/xzstartinventors/a/Zworykin.htm

Fact 17 EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy in 1960 http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

Fact 18 Sony Corporation sells the first direct-view portable television in 1960 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sony.net%2FSonyInfo%2FCorporateInfo%2FHistory%2Fsonyhistory-c.html&ei=YDtpUpyRHuLh2wWx5ID4CA&usg=AFQjCNFvf4LDiDdgRb5NOFkyhS4pdvTasQ

Fact 19 Sony introduced the CV-2000 VTR in 1964 and was released in the US in 1965 http://avengers-in-time.blogspot.com/2012/02/1965-science-and-technology-sony-cv.html

Fact 20 The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced in 1995 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sony+Ships+Digital+Handycam+Camcorders%3B+First+Digital+Camcorders...-a017465825