1. The Timeline of Video Production
By: Greylyn Tidwell

2. Fact 1!!!
The first video ever made was of a horse running. It was a very short clip comprised of just a few images.

3. Fact 2
The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the “Wheel of Life” or the “Zoopraxiscope”.

4. Fact 3
The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited for inventing the motion picture camera in But in truth, several others had made inventions similar to the camera around the same time.

5. Fact 4
Today more photos are taken with phones than with point- and- shoot cameras.

6. Fact 5
As each person buys a cellphone with a camera the cost of pocket cameras go down.

7. Fact 6
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian who made a living as a bookseller, is the first person who captured sound.

8. Fact 7
The first recorded voice was not Thomas Edison's but someone who took a recording right before.

9. Fact 8
In the early days, film was the only medium available for recording television programs.

10. Fact 9 The first video ever made was in 1867

11. Fact 10 The first video camera made was made in 1867

12. Fact 11
The Lumiere brothers were inventors of the cinematographic process

13. Fact 12
Film colorization was made by Canadians Wilson Markle and Brian Hunt in 1983.

14. Fact 13
The first animation ever was Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie. This was made November 18, 1928.

15. Fact 14
The first film ever made with color and sound is “Cyrano de Bergerac”

16. Fact 15
The first silent movie ever made was “ The Great Train Robbery” it was made in 1903

17. Fact 16
The silent movie was produced by Thomas Edison but was directed and filmed by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter.

18. Fact 17
The silent movie was 12 minutes long because that was about as long as they could film at the time.

19. Fact 18
The importance of editing was never paid much attention to in the 1800s and the early 1900s because filming was still fairly new back then. Now however it is essential in movie making.

20. Fact 19
In the early 1900s you would see them act out parts over and over again because they needed to shoot from different angles unlike today when you can have multiple cameras and put it on one film.

21. Fact 20
In the period of the 1900s it was a great time of discovery for films. They were learning how to edit, use backdrops, and find a different approach to the flow of time.