The Evolution of Video Production Shardae Shavers 6th Period

1865 Johann Zahn Invented the box form of Camera Obscura (Camera Obscura) A darkened box with a convex lens for projecting the image of an outside object onto a screen inside

1827 Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first Photographic Image with A Camera Obscura

1951 the first video tape recorder captured live images from television cameras, by converting the camera's electrical impulses and saving the info onto magnetic video tape.

1956 Video recorders sold for $50,000 videotape cost $300 per one-hour reel.

1971 prices steadily dropped over the years

1879 Eadweard Muybridge A British photographer Invented the zoopraxiscope, Zoopraxiscope - an early type of motion-picture projector, designed by Eadweard Muybridge, in which  the images were drawings or photographs placed along the rim of a circular glass plate, the shutter was a rotating opaque disk with radial slots, and a limelight source

1889 William Kennedy built the first motion-picture camera and named it the Kinetograph.

1891 The Edison company demonstrated the Kinetoscope, it allowed one person at a time to view moving pictures

1907 The technique of single frame animation was further developed by Edwin S. Porter

1906 Albert Edward Smith and James Stuart Blackton took the next step, in their Humorous Phases of Funny Faces. What appear to be cartoon drawings of people move from one pose to another. This is done for most of the length of this film by moving jointed cut-outs of the figures frame by frame between the exposures, just as Porter moved his letters. However, there is a very short section of the film where things are made to appear to move by altering the drawings themselves from frame to frame, which is how standard animated cartoons .have since been made up to today.