Video History Timeline a PowerPoint by Cameron Murry

Hanibal W. Goodwin invented film, which George Eastman bought out and began mass producing. meline.htm 1887

Eadweard Muybridge published Animal Locomotion, which was a motion picture about humans and animals in various stages of action. November 1887

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and Thomas Alva Edison created the Kinetograph, the first motion-picture camera

Thomas Edison invents the Kinetophone, allowing movies to have audio

Technicolor was brought to the big screen. meline.htm 1917

The idea of television was first introduced, showing the image of a dollar sign. eline_text.html 1927

The Jazz Singer was released, becoming the first movie to have a dialogue. m 1927

Surveillance cameras were invented by engineer Walter Burch, and installed at a rocket launch site in Germany. camera.html 1942

The motion picture business was dominated by film studios. meline.htm 1946

The first video tape recorder captured live images from T.V. cameras and saved them onto a magnetic tape. m 1951

Ampex sold the first video tape recorder (VTR) for $50, m 1956

IBM releases the first hard drive, per request of the United States Air Force. drive 1956

The first test-run of the modern video camera’s ability to record images and sound was on April 14, camera.htm April 14, 1956

First video camera model made in Japan. nyhistory-d.html 1958

Surveillance cameras introduced in the US in Olean, New York to help stop crime in the business district. camera.html 1962

Digital photography, along with the digital camera and many other technology advancements, can trace its beginnings back to the “Space Race.” digital-photography.html#axzz3E4mcIi

The first VCR’s sold by Sony. m 1971

VHS format started in the United States of America with JVC, RCA, and Sony

Kodak invented the first digital camera, and also took the first digital image, which was in black white. important-digital-cameras December 1975

VHS (Video Home System) in large cassette format was introduced by both JVC and Panasonic. m 1976

Japan Victor Company (JVC) demonstrated their VHD/AHD disc system, which worked like a turntable

Video cameras (camcorders) first became available to the public. They were bulky and expensive, but they were efficient. camera.htm 1980s

The first webcam was invented- it watched a coffee pot. invented-to-watch-a-coffee-pot/ 1991

Sony introduced the first clip-on hard drive, capable of 20 hours of recording. It was the SVR nyhistory-d.html 2000

Samsung (June 2000, left) and Sharp (November 2000, right) released the first camera phones. phones/ 2000

Seagate released a 1.5 terabyte hard drive. disk/ 2008

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