1. Timeline of the History of Video Production By: Alexis Huddleston

2. Fact 1 Alexander Wolcott invented the first camera. It was patented in 1840. However, the idea of making pictures was created by Joseph Nicephore Niepce. In 1826, Charles and Vincent Chevalier created the first camera that could take photos. Then in 1827, the Frenchman Joseph Niepce managed to make a photographic image. http://www.ask.com/question/who- invented-the-very-first-camera-and-when

3. Fact 2 Philo Farnsworth Transmitted the first all-electronic image on television in 1927. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blf arnsworth.htm

4. Fact 3 The panoramic camera was patented – The Sutton in1859. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions /a/Photography.htm

5. Fact 4 Edison constructs the first motion picture studio in New Jersey in 1893. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film _chron.cfm

6. Fact 5 The first movie ever made was by The Lumiere Brothers.Auguste and Louis Lumiere were credited with the worlds first public film screening on December 28,1895.This showing was approximately ten short films that all together was about twenty minutes long.This film was held in the basement lounge of a Grand Café on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. http://inventors.about.com/library/invent ors/blmotionpictures.htm

7. Fact 6 Produced by Thomas Edison but directed but directed and filmed by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter. It was a 12- minute-long silent film made in 1903. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/tra inrobbery.htm

8. Fact 7 Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon studio in Pittsburgh in 1905. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/histo ryonline/film_chron.cfm

9. Fact 8 In 1906 J. Stuart Blackton’s Released the first Three minute animation film. http://movies.about.com/od/animatedmovies/a/hi story-animated-films.htm

10. Fact 9 There were about 9,000 movie theaters in the U.S. in 1909. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ film_chron.cfm

11. Fact 10 Credits begin to appear at the beginning of motion pictures in 1911. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ film_chron.cfm

12. Fact 11 William Fox founds Fox filmCoorperation in 1915.Combining motion picture production,distrubution,and theaters. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ film_chron.cfm

13. Fact 12 The first African American owned studio, The Lincoln Motion Picture Studio, was founded in 1917. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ film_chron.cfm

14. Fact 13 Lee DeForrest demonstrates a method for recording sound on the edge of a film strip in 1922. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ film_chron.cfm

15. Fact 14 Vladimir Zworykin developed the first workable TV Camera in 1923. http://jgiudice.tripod.com/history/history- timeline.htm

16. Fact 15 Warner Bros. is established in 1923. One of the most famous company's to produce movies in America. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ film_chron.cfm

17. Fact 16 Mickey Mouse was introduced in 1928 as Steamboat Willie. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ film_chron.cfm

18. Fact 17 The Wizard of OZ was the first color movie that was produced in 1939 and it was 102 minutes long. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/12 /the-wizard-of-oz-google-doodle

19. Fact 18 Konica introduces the first auto focus camera in 1978. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions /a/Photography.htm

20. Fact 19 Sony demonstrates consumer camcorder on May 11,1980. http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-history- of-video-cameras

21. Fact 20 Photography comes from the Greek word photo which means light. http//inventors.about.com/od/pstartinvention s/a/stilphotography.htm