1. THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION
By: Jordan O’Donald

2. Fact 1 The panoramic camera patented by Thomas Sutton in 1859

3. Fact 2
In 1877Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, which uses an engraved wax cylinder that rotates against a stylus

4. Fact 3
The first motion picture ever made was ‘ The Horse In Motion’ in 1878

5. Fact 4 First short motion pictures arrived in the 1890s

6. Fact 5
This first phase of the motion pictures, in the late 1890s and into the 1900s, emphasized reproducing human motion

7. Fact 6
Griffith and others in the industry wanted to move beyond the simple formula that characterized the industry in the early 1900s

8. Fact 7
‘The House of Wax’ was the first 3D movie ever made, it was released in 1953

9. Fact 8
The Ampex Corporation used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists during World War II to create the first video tape recorder, the Ampex VRX-1000, introduced in 1956

10. Fact 9
Introduced in 1956, 2" quadruplex was the first commercially viable professional broadcast video format to secure it's position in Video History

11. Fact 10
By 1958, an estimated 3700 feature films had been sold or leased to TV for an estimated $220 million

12. Fact 11
The RCA Company led production of early video production equipment in the United States and invented the first handheld mobile video production camera, the TK-44, in 1972

13. Fact 12
Sony introduced its Betamax half inch home video cassette recorder (VCR) in 1975

14. Fact 13
The first commercially available video cassette recorder was the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975

15. Fact 14
By the mid 1980s, the home video revolution had swept the country

16. Fact 15
The first talking movie was demonstrated by Thomas Edison using his Kinetophone process in 1913

17. Fact 16
Vladimir Zworykin, Russian, developed the first workable TV camera in 1923

18. Fact 17
EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy in 1960

19. Fact 18
Sony Corporation sells the first direct-view portable television in 1960

20. Fact 19
Sony introduced the CV-2000 VTR in 1964 and was released in the US in 1965

21. Fact 20
The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced in 1995