HISTORY OF VIDEO

By: Kristina Schwartz

The First picture was taken with a Camera Obscure in 1827.

1837 The Daguerreotype was invented.

In 1885 George Eastman invented the very first Kodak camera.

Negatives and Positives were invented in 1841.

Tintypes were patented in 1856 by Hamilton Smith.

In 1851, Frederick Scoff Archer, an English sculptor, invented the wet plate negative

The first video recorder was called the zoopraxiscope.

In 1951 the first video tape recorder (VTR) was invented.

The first Disney animated cartoon was Steamboat Willie.

The First portable video recorder was the Sony CV-2000

There wasn’t really a first “Movie” but the first motion picture was a short film called The Horse In Motion .

The first home movie was Roundhay Garden Scene .

Charles Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called radio vision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923.

At the World's Fair in Paris, the first International Congress of Electricity was held. That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television."

In 1925, Zworykin filed a patent disclosure for an all-electronic color television system.

The first Video Tape Recorder was introduced in the 1970’s and was priced at $50,000.

The first VHS tape unknown.

The first DVD player was released in 1977.

Before the advent of DVD in 1995, Video CD (VCD) became the first format for distributing digitally encoded films on standard 120 mm optical discs

March 26, 1996 the movie Twister was the first movie to be put on DVD.

The famous video server YouTube was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. They sold YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars to Google search engine. YouTube was founded in February 2005.

Sources

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/cameras.html

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http://www.technewsdaily.com/390-digital-camera-history-the-evolution-of-the-camera.html

http://www.rewindmuseum.com/reeltoreelvideo.htm

http://www.videointerchange.com/dvd.htm