Video Productio

nBy: Lauren Carter

1867 The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope.

1891 In 1891, the Edison company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope, which enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures.

1895The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895.

1896in 1896, Edison showed his improved Vitascope projector and it was the first commercially, successful, projector in the U.S.

1920The first video cameras were produced in 1920.

1927 The very first video format. 

Never widely adopted - it was for practical purposes,

an experimental format that used a record and a stylus

to record and play back video.

1951 In 1951, the first video tape recorder captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic tape.

1956 Introduced in 1956, 2" quadruplex was the first commercially viable professional broadcast video format to secure it's position in Video History.  Instead of evolving into a broadcast format, Quadruplex was conceived and designed from the very start as being a professional broadcast format.

1972The 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.

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

1976Video tape in a large cassette format introduced by both JVC and Panasonic around 1976.

1977 Home color TV cameras are introduced.

1978Videodisc players are first marketed.

1980The 1st portable recorder and camera combinations (Camcorders) are introduced.