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TIMELINE PRODUCTION

THE FIRST CAMERA

The Obscura camera was invented by Joseph Nicephore Niepce a retired french army officer, who made the world’s first true photograph of a scene the camera was invented in 1826 in St-Loup-de-verennes, France.

WHAT THE CAMERA CONSISTED OF?

The camera consisted of two wooden boxes,one carrying lens and the ground-glass screen. The boxes were connected by bellows so that the distance between the lend and screen could be varied.

FIRST T.V. BROADCAST

• 1926: the first American television picture is broadcast from Arlington, Virginia to Washington, D.C. It is a picture of a weather map. 1938: The NBC New York station carries the first live unscheduled news story when their mobile unit spots a fire raging on Ward’s Island.• 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first

incumbent President to appear on television when he gives the opening address at the New York World’s Fair.

• 1941: CBS and NBC are granted the first commercial television licenses for their New York stations on the same day so neither network can claim to be the “first.”• By 1945, fewer than 7,000 TV sets are in

American homes and there are only nine broadcasting stations. They are in New York City (3 stations), Chicago (2), Los Angeles (2), Philadelphia (1), and Schenectady, NY (1).

WHAT WAS THE FIRST T.V. MADE

The first working television was made by Philo Farnsworth in 1928 and it first displayed the system to the press on 1st of September 1928. Philo invented a working TV system that included an electronic scanning of the pickup and display devices.

WHEN WAS THE VIDEO TAPE RECORDER MADE

• In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses

WHEN WAS THE FIRST CARTOON MADE

• The first animated picture was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) by J. Stuart Blackton. He was a newspaper cartoonist and one of the co-initiators of the Vitagraph Company. It was the most basic surviving instance of an animated film, and the first cartoon to apply the single frame method.

WHEN WAS TELEVISON PRODUCTION MADE

• In the 1920's, John Logie Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television. Baird's 30 line images were the first demonstrations of television by reflected light rather than back-lit silhouettes. John Logie Baird based his technology on Paul Nipkow's scanning disc idea and later developments in electronics.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST CARTOON CHARACTER

• One of the oldest cartoon characters is Gertie the Dinosaur. This character was not only the first female cartoon character, but beginning in 1914, it was the first real character with a personality

WHEN WAS THE FIRST CARTOON SHOW AIRED

• Several children's shows emerged in the late 1940s and early 1950s including The Small Fry Club, Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, and Robert E. "Buffalo Bob" Smith's Howdy Doody Time. The Columbia Broadcasting System began airing animated cartoons in 1955 under the title "The Mighty Mouse

WHEN WAS MICKEY MOUSE MADE

• Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928.

WHEN WAS THE FIRST GREEN SCREEN MADE

• The green screen was created only 10 years before the blue screen even though they were essentially used for the same functions. Larry Butler invented the green screen for his special effects in the 1940 film "The Thief of Bagdad."

WHEN WAS THE FIRST MOVIE MADE

• “The Horse in Motion,” made in 1878, is often designated as the first. It was a series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse.

• Muybridge gave many demonstrations of his primitive motion pictures, and at the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, in 1893, he lectured on the “Science of Animal Locomotion” in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose. He used his zoopraxiscope, which was an early type of movie projector, to show his movies to a paying public, making the Hall the first commercial movie theater.

• The earliest film with a narrative was “The Roundhay Garden Scene,” made in 1888 by inventor Louis Le Prince. It’s 2.1 seconds long!

THE WHEN WAS THE FIRST PHONE MADE

• The telephone is one of the greatest inventions in history. Early telephones were nothing like the ones we have today. Telephone is the Greek word for “far sound.” This is how the telephone became what it is today.

• The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, with the help of his assistant Thomas A. Watson. Mr. Bell was originally from Scotland and came to Boston, Massachusetts in 1872. Mr. Bell got the idea for the telephone from a German inventor, Hermann von Helmholz.

THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEOS MADE

• music video is a short film or video that accompanies a piece of music. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into prominence in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around the medium.

T.V. TIMELINE

• 1897 K.F. Braun invents the cathode-ray tube.1906 Reginald Fessenden invents wireless telephony, a means for radio waves to carry signals a significant distance.1912 The Radio Act of 1912 assigns three- and four-letter codes to radio stations and limits broadcasting to the 360m wavelength, which jams signals.1920 KDKA, a Pittsburgh Westinghouse station, transmits the first commercial radio broadcast.1922 Reacting to problems posed by the Radio Act of 1912, the Commerce Department allows powerful stations to use the 400m wavelength as long as they only broadcast live music.1923 Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosma Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube. He patents the first color tube in

• 1925 Radio's The Smith Family introduces the soap opera format.1926 RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse establish NBC, which operates two national radio networks.1927 Philo Farnsworth transmits the first all-electronic television image.1928 John Baird beams a television image from England to the United States.GE introduces a television set with a 3" × 4" screen.The first television is sold — a Daven for $75.1929 CBS is founded by William S. Paley.1930 Crossley Inc. tabulates the first formal radio ratings system.1931 There are nearly 40,000 television sets in the United States; 9,000 of them are in New York City alone.1933 Edwin Armstrong introduces Frequency Modulation (FM), a static-free method of transmission.

• 1934 The Communications Act of 1934 creates the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasting.1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) debuts the world's first television service with three hours of programming a day.1937 Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy make their television debut on NBC.1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds on October 30, creating a nationwide panic as listeners believe that aliens have landed in New Jersey.Information Please quiz show debuts on radio.1939 Robert Kane introduces the Batman cartoon.

• 1940 CBS demonstrates color television in New York.WNBT, the first regularly operating television station, debuts in New York with an estimated 10,000 viewers.It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! The radio show debuts.The first Bugs Bunny cartoon.1943 Radio classic Amos 'n' Andy is canceled after 15 years and more than 4,000 consecutive shows.1944 The first instance of network censorship occurs. The sound is cut off on the Eddie Cantor and Nora Martin duet, “We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me.”The DuMont network goes on the air. Paramount Pictures backs the start-up enterprise, but its lack of affiliated radio networks leads to its early demise in 1956.1945 The orthicon tube, developed by RCA, improves light sensitivity a hundredfold.The FCC creates the commercial broadcasting spectrum of 13 channels, and 130 applications for broadcast licenses follow.1946 Faraway Hill, what many television historians consider to be the first network soap opera, debuts on the DuMont network.