Video Production Facts Timeline By: Rosie Moya

Fact 1  1727-Johann H. Schulze, a German physicist, discovers that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 2  1780s: Carl Scheele, a Swedish chemist, shows that the changes in the color of the silver salts could be made permanent through the use of chemicals.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 3  1826: A French inventor, Nicephore Niepce, produces a permanent image by coating a metal plate with a light-sensitive chemical and exposing the plate to light for about eight hours.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 4  1830s:Louis Daguerre, a French inventor, develops the first practical method of photography by placing a sheet of silver-coated copper treated with crystals of iodine inside a camera and exposing it to an image for 5 to 40 minutes. Vapors from heated mercury developed the image and sodium thiosulfate made the image permanent.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 5  1840s: Josef M. Petzval, a Hungarian mathematician, develops lenses for portrait and landscape photographs, which produce sharper images and admit more light, thus reducing exposure time.  line/film_chron.cfm line/film_chron.cfm

Fact 6  1884:George Eastman invents flexible photographic film.  techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm

Fact 7  1887:Thomas Edison patents motion camera.  techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm

Fact 8  st home movie ever made- Roundhay Garden Scene  Early movie history is surrounded in the mists of time, as different competitors developed movie technology simultaneously. However, the Roundhay Garden Scene is thought to be the oldest surviving film on record. The Roundhay Garden Scene was directed by the French inventor, Louis Le Prince and features some members of Le Prince’s family playfully walking around a garden. The film lasts about two seconds.  history-film-firsts html history-film-firsts html

Fact 9  :1 st movie ever shot (U.S.A.)- Monkeyshines no.1  Monkeyshines, No.1 may very well be the first movie ever shot using a continuous strip of film. It was shot as a camera test by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise, both of whom worked for Thomas Edison. Historians are unsure of the exact date this film was shot as it was filmed to be a camera test and not for commercial purposes.  The film depicts a blurry Edison co-worker goofing off for the camera. It was quickly followed by Monkeyshines No.2 & 3.  ever-made-history-film-firsts html ever-made-history-film-firsts html

Fact 10  The First Copyrighted Movie Ever Made - Fred Ott's Sneeze (1893-4)  This title goes to Fred Ott's Sneeze, which reportedly was the first movie ever made at Thomas Edison's Black Maria rooftop studio. The actual name of this movie is Record of a Sneeze, which was made in late 1893 and copyrighted on January 7,  This movie was made for the Kinetoscope and not intended to be projected.  history-film-firsts html?cat=37 history-film-firsts html?cat=37

Fact 11  First Movie Ever Made for Projection -- Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895)  Movies for mass public consumption are considered to be the invention of Auguste and Louis Lumiere. Edison's interest in movies was to sell his Kinetoscope machines, designed as individual 'peep shows" in which a person looked into a box and saw a moving picture. The Lumiere brothers envisioned movies as public showings. The two approaches are like the difference between listening to an I-pod on your headphones versus sitting in a theater and listening to a concert.  The Lumiere Brothers held a private screening of projected movies on March 22, This test screening was a success. The Lumieres’ then held their first paid, public screening of movies on December 28, 1895 in the basement the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris. The basement was set up with a hundred seats. Thirty-three people paid attendance to witness the birth of cinema.  The program that night consisted of ten Lumiere shorts, each running approximately 46 seconds in length.  html?cat= html?cat=37

Fact 12  First Motion Picture Projected for an Audience - Berlin Wintergarten Novelty Program (1895)  Max and Emil Sklandanowsky were German inventors who created the Bioskop, a different technology for showing moving pictures that involved an elaborate machine using two parallel film strips and two lenses which were able to flash pictures on a screen at 16 frames per second. This was enough of a frame rate to give the illusion of motion. On November 1, 1895, nearly two months before the Lumiere public showing, the Sklandanowsky brothers presented a moving picture show as part of the Berlin Wintergarten festival as part of a program of novelties. The moving pictures were a big hit and played to sold out shows in the ensuing weeks; however, the Lumiere projection system was technologically superior to the complicated arrangements necessary to show Bioskop pictures, which is why the Lumiere's are generally credited with the creation of the commercial medium we call movies.  firsts html?cat=37 firsts html?cat=37

Fact 13  1920s:The first television camera by Philo Taylor Fansworth, which converted the image captured into an electrical signal. Back then films were used to record images.  deo-production.html deo-production.html

Fact 14  1938:Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi.  techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm

Fact 15  1950s:Some companies started looking into a form of magnetic tape to record live images from television. Charles Ginsburg led a team of researchers at Ampex Corporation in developing a video recorder, which led to the invention of the first VTR (Video Tape Recorder).  deo-production.html deo-production.html

Fact 16  1951:The VTR started the recording of live images from television cameras, which converted these images into electrical impulses saved onto magnetic tapes.  deo-production.html deo-production.html

Fact 17  1953:color broadcasting arrives in the U.S. on Dec. 17, when FCC approves modified version of an RCA system.  techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.h tm

Fact 18  The Aristocats was produced and released in 1970.

Fact 19  1971: Sony sold their first VCR (Video Cassette Recorder.)  deo-production.html deo-production.html

Fact 20  1981: Sony unveiled the first digital camera – the Sony Mavica (magnetic video camera). It made a use of a fast-rotating magnetic disc approximately 2 inches in diameter.  deo-production.html deo-production.html

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