Video Production Facts

Madalyn Bayly

1st fact

• Johann Hienrich Schulze ,and Ibn Al-Haytam Alhazen both played a part in inventing the first camera obscura.

• http://invention.yukozimo.com

2nd fact

• In 1816 Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the fist photograph ever.

• http://invention.yukozimo.com

• Alexander Wolcott invented the first camera with pictures that would not fade.

• en.wikipedia.org

• There are a number of contenders, though photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge’s “The Horse in Motion,” made in 1878, is often designated as the first. It was a series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse.

• http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/

• The design of the first Chronograph (this is how they called it) was made by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey and debuted at 1882 by the name of Fusil Photographique or photographic 'rifle'.

• http://www.diyphotography.net/

• The first theater in the world exclusively devoted to showing motion pictures was the Nickelodeon, which was opened on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Penn.

• The theater was the creation of Harry Davis and John P. Harris who moved 96 seats into an empty store at 433-435 Smithfield St., transforming it into the world's first movie theater. The name was based on the cost of admission to the theater (a nickel) and the Greek word for theater (odeon).

• http://www.infoplease.com/

• In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display device.

• www.google.com

• On June 25, 1951, CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program. Unfortunately, nearly no one could watch it on their black-and-white televisions.

• http://history1900s.about.com/

• During the Depression or the 1920s, movies cost about 27 cents.

• http://www.kidzworld.com/

• While the first air-conditioned movie theater was built way back in 1922, the first cup holders didn't make it into cinemas until AMC Theaters introduced them in 1981.

• http://www.kidzworld.com/

• New Jersey was home to the very first drive-in theater, which was built in 1933. The drive-in peaked in popularity in the '50s and '60s but there are now less than 1000 of them left in North America.

• http://www.kidzworld.com/

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

• http://inventors.about.com/

• Steven Sasson Digital camera, Inventor

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• The first camera phone was the J-SH04 made by sharp. Borland founder Philippe Kahn invented the camera phone while his wife was having a baby in a hospital room. But earlier, in the year 1994, Olympus released a camera called the Deltis VC-1100, a camera which contained built-in functionality that let its users upload digital photos over both cellular and analogue phone lines.

• http://www.ask.com/

• In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine.

• http://www.computerhope.com/

• 1906 J. Stuart Blackton's Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is released. It is a three-minute short in which Blackton's hand can be seen animating drawings of faces and people against a plain blackboard.

• http://movies.about.com/

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• 1914 Earl Hurd invents the process of cel animation, which would revolutionize and dominate the industry for much of the 20th century.

• http://movies.about.com/

• 1914 Gertie the Dinosaur is widely considered the first animated short to feature a distinguishable character, as animator Winsor McCay brings a walking, dancing dinosaur to life.

• http://movies.about.com/

• The first modern ('integrated tri-pack') color film, Kodachrome, was introduced in 1935 based on three colored emulsions. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for Agfacolor (as 'Agfacolor Neue') in 1936. (In this newer technology, chromogenic dye couplers are already within the emulsion layers, rather than having to be carefully diffused in during development.) Instant color film was introduced by Polaroid in 1963.

• I have often heard 'The Wizard of Oz' announced as the first film of color, but perhaps this is only due to its popularity and the fact that it was ONE of the first.

• http://www.funtrivia.com/

• A German patent in 1904 contained the earliest recorded proposal for a color television system

• http://inventors.about.com/