Video Tech Timeline By: Ryan Hall
1797 John Thomas Smith became the first person to write down the rule of thirds
1839 First photograph was taken of people
1878 A series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse is known as the first motion picture Made by Eadweard Muybridge
1888 First motion picture film camera was made by Louis Le Prince
1899 first animation movie was made by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper Was called Matches: An Appeal
April 11, 1921 first voice broadcast of a sporting event Was a boxing match between Johnny Dundee and Johnny Ray
August 5, 1921 First baseball game broadcasted on radio Game was between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburg Pirates
1922 The power of Love became the first 3d film made
September 1, 1928 First working television was demonstrated to the press by Philo Farnsworth
1929 Fox introduced the first 70 mm film format
May 17, 1939 The first televised sporting event took place It was a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers Was broadcasted by NBC
August 26, 1939 First baseball game is televised on station W2XBS Game was between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
September 30, 1939 First televised football game Between Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham rams
February 25, 1940 First hockey game was televised from Madison Square Garden Game was between New York Rangers and Montreal Canadians
February 28, 1940 First basketball game was televised from Madison Square Garden The game was between Fordham and the University of Pittsburg
July 1, 1941 Worlds first commercial was made Came on before a New York Yankee baseball game Commercial was for Bulova watches
Later on July 1, 1941 First quiz show was broadcasted on WNBT Show was called Uncle Bee and was hosted by Ralph Edwards
1951 First successful videotape recorder was made by Ampex
February 28, 1960 First time the Olympics was televised live in the U.S. It was broadcasted by CBS
September 26, 1960 John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon presidential debate was the first one broadcasted on TV
May 22, 1971 First IMAX theatre to open permanently
September 1971 First video cassette, the Sony-U-matic system, was made in Tokyo
1975 First digital camera was made by Steve Sasson
1978 First green screen was created
July 23, 1996 First digital broadcast was made Was broadcasted by a CBS affiliate of Raleigh, North Caroilna
1997 First DVD was created by Phillips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic
March 31, 1998 First commercial broadcast for a sporting event was made
January 30, 2000 First sporting event broadcast in HD was Super Bowl XXXIV Game was between the St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans
June 2006 First blu-ray discs were made
February 5, 2012 Most watched primetime broadcast in the U.S. was of Super Bowl XLVI