Timeline of the History of Video Production

By: Ariana Thompson

Fact One

• The first video camera was created in 1888 by George Eastman and he called it the 'Kodak'.

Fact Two

• The first video camera cost $25, which was quite expensive in the late 1800's. The film and camera had to be sent back to the company to be processed and reloaded.

Fact Three

• At age 21, Philo Farnsworth sent the world's first electronic television transmission.

Fact Four

• Fantasmagorie is an 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional

Fact Five

• Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever news broadcast on television in 1930

Fact Six

• Walt Disney's first animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released.

Fact Seven

• V. K. Zworykin's iconoscope (1923) was the first successful camera tube in wide use.

Fact Eight

• In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family's country home.

Fact Nine

• 1954The Captain' "Captain Kangaroo“ the first network kids show, begins on CBS.

Fact Ten• 2010

3D movies and 3D television sets arrive. It started with James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar". 3D has been around for decades, but this time it seems as though it is here to stay. Numerous movies have come out and all TV manufactures have released high definition 3D sets. Instead of those funky red/green cardboard glasses you now wear a modern hi-tech LCD pair that let's you watch the new sets with incredible clarity. Never before has 3D been so vivid. The images truly appear to jump off of the screen. New 3D Blu-ray players have also been introduced so you can watch your favorite movie (as soon as it's released on disc) in 3D at home. Several cable stations and networks are starting to deliver programs in 3D.

Fact Eleven

• 1926 NBC was founded

Fact Twelve

• 1891 - 1895 Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures using Edison's kineograph, his motion picture camera.

Fact Thirteen

Yoshihisa Maitani, the designer of the OM, Pen, XA series talks about his approach and attitudes, from his development philosophy to the creation of new products.

Fact Fourteen

• PBS stands for Public Broadcasting Service and it was established on the 5th of October, 1970

Fact Fifteen

• Good Morning America’s first broadcasting was November 3, 1975

Fact Sixteen

• The Cosby Show fist aired on September 20, 1984

Fact Seventeen

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

Fact Eighteen

• Kodak was founded in 1892

Fact Nineteen

• The Today Show was first broadcasting was January 14, 1952

Fact Twenty

• "Howdy Doody," a children's series, premieres live on NBC in December as a one-hour Saturday program in 1947