Timeline of the History of Video Production

By: Cole Christen

1727

• Johann H. Schulze, a German physicist, discovers that silver salts turn dark when exposed to light in 1727

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1879

• The first moving pictures were displayed on an invention called the Zoopraxiscope, it was a device created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1879.

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1885

• George Easton creates film using paper rolls.

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1888

• George Eastman events Kodak camera which is lightweight , inexpensive, and using film on wound rollers.

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1894

• The first public kinetoscope parlor was in New York City in 1894.

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1895

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

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1906

• First animated cartoon is created.

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1917

• In 1917, Dutch-born Iwan Serrurier invented a machine that would allow the public to watch movies in their own homes.

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1917

• First African-American owned film studio.

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1928

• Mickey Mouse is introduced in the cartoon steamboat Willie.

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1933

• Theaters begin to open refreshment stands.

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1934

• First drive in movie theater opens in New Jersey.

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1955

• Sony introduces japans transistors radio.

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1956

• The video recorder was made in 1956 in World War 2.

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1965

• Sony launches first IC radio.

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1975

• Sony introduces video tape recorder.

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1984

• Sony launches the Discman.

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1982

• Sony introduces first CD player.

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1985

• Sony released the 8mm camcorder.

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1999

• The first digital recorder was made by Sony in 1999. They used a D-1 format witch recorded uncompressed video.

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