By: Odin Contreras

Video Production

History

1872-1877 A series of photos can be viewed by

stroboscopic disc.

1884 George Eastman invents flexible

photographic film.

1887 Thomas Edison patents motion picture

camera.

1888 Edison attempts to record picture photos

on a wax cylinder.

1891-1895 Dickson shoots many 15 second photos

using Edison's kineograph motion picture camera.

1895 The first public demonstration of

motion pictures displayed in France.

1897 Ferdinand Braun developed Cathode

Ray Tube.

1907 Cay Ray Tube is used to produce

television images.

1923 Patent for the iconoscope, the

forerunner of the picture tube.

1927 Talking films started with Al Jolson in

"The Jazz Singer".

Early 1903s The RCA conducts black and white

broadcasting experiments.

1936 The first television broadcast made

available in London.

1938 Initial proposal for color TV broadcast

made by George Valensi.

1945  There were fewer than 7,000

working TV sets in the country and only nine stations on the air; three in New York, two each in Chicago and Los Angeles, and one each in Philadelphia and Schenectady, N.Y.

1946

The Blue Network officially becomes the ABC Network 1941 FCC ruling required RCA to divest itself of one of its two networks; NBC Blue was sold in 1943 to Edward Noble for $8 million, and becomes ABC in 1945.

First Video Recorder

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

Early Cameras

The first television camera employed early versions of the cathode ray tube invented in 1897. The RCA made the first handheld mobile video camera in 1972 the TK-44.

Advent of Home Video

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

First Digital Video Recorder

Earliest commercially available professional digital video recorders were introduced by Sony using the D-1 format, which recorded uncompressed standard definition video using a component video.

First Digital Camera

The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced in 1995. The camera featured a 3-CCD imaging device for unprecedented video quality in a home video camera.