TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION

By Shelby Martin

1889

In 1889, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, commissioned by Thomas Alva Edison, built the first motion picture camera and named it the Kinetograph.

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1894

In 1894, the first motion-picture studio, nicknamed the Black Maria, is established by the Edison Corporation.

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1895

In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiere invent Cinematograph, a combination camera and projector.

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1903

In 1903, the Edison Corporation mechanic, Edwin S. Porter turns cameraman, director, and producer to make the great train robbery.

With 14 shots cutting between simultaneous events, this 12-minute short establishes the shot as film’s basic element being the first western movie.

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1911

In 1911, the first feature film is released when the two reels of D.W. Griffith’s Enoch Arden are screened together.

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1913

In 1913, the first “talking movie” is demonstrated by Thomas Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.]

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1926

In 1926, John Logie Baird was the first person to have a system of the television out on the market.

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1929

In 1929, Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosmo Zworykin made two inventions. First he made the Iconoscope, which was essentially a rudimentary video camera. Then he made the kinescope, precursor to the modern television tube.

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1946

In 1946, the RCA 630TS is considered the “Model T” of postwar televisions.

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1952

In 1952, they developed 3-D movies.

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1953

In 1953, after World War II, broadcast T.V. was well established. The show lineup in 1953 included the first instance of interactive T.V. The show was called Winky Dink and You.

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1955

In 1955, initial color T.V.’s promoted some enterprising companies to implement a mechanical conversion of B&W TV to color.

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1959

In 1959, Nikon introduces its first single lens reflex camera. It became the most advanced camera of its time.

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1960

In 1960, EG&G develops an underwater camera that functions at extreme depths.

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1980

In 1980, Sony introduces the first consumer camcorder.

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1984

In 1984, Sony releases the first digital camera – the first electronic still camera.

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1985

In 1985, the first digital imaging processor is introduced by Pixar, innovatively using computer algorithms to perform image proccesing on digital images.

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1990

In 1990, Kodak introduces the first photo CD player.

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1991

In 1991, the Motion Picture Assoc. said that only 16% of American movies are fit for kids under the age of 13.

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1996

In 1996, web-TV tunes television sets to the Internet via TV-set-top box.

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