by jordan webb *note: unfortunately, i neglected to put this slideshow in chronological order
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In 1972, the RCA Company led production of early video production equipment in the U.S. and invented the TK-44; the first handheld mobile video production camera.TRANSCRIPT
History of Video Production
By Jordan Webb
*Note: Unfortunately, I neglected to put this slideshow in chronological order.
Fact #1
In 1897, the first television cameras employed early versions of the cathode ray tube.
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Fact #2
In 1972, the RCA Company led production of early video production equipment in the U.S. and invented the TK-44; the first handheld mobile video production camera.
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Fact #3
In 1956, during World War II, the Ampex Corporation used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists to create the Ampex VRX-1000; the first video tape recorder.
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Fact #4
In 1975, the Sony Betamax, the first commercially available VCR (video cassette recorder), was introduced.
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Fact #5
In 1884, George Eastman invented flexible photographic film.
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Fact #6
In 1887, the famous Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera. One year later, Edison attempted to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder in 1888.
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Fact #7
In France, during 1895, the first public demonstration of motion pictures were displayed.
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Fact #8
The iconoscope, the forerunner of the picture tub was patented in 1923.
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Fact #9
Oftentimes, the Frenchman Louis Lumiere is given credit for inventing the original motion picture camera in 1895, but many other inventors did pretty much the exact same thing.
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Fact #10
Even though he is called the “Father of motion picture,” Eadweard Muybridge didn’t make films in the manner we know today.
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Fact #11
Richard M. Hollingshead was the first to open and patent a drive-in theater.
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Fact #12
While famous for being the creator of Mickey Mouse, the famous Walt Disney also invented the multi-plane camera.
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Fact #13
In 1902, Edward Raymond Turner shot a test film, based on his 1899 patents, and it became the earliest color film.
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Fact #14
In 1906, Lee DeForest invented the first electronic signal amplifier: the triode vacuum tube.
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Fact #15
In 1907, Boris Rosing filed his first patent on a television system.
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Fact #16
In 1913, Thomas Edison demonstrated the first “talking movie.”
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Fact #17
Hundreds of years earlier, around 4 or 5 B.C., Chinese and Greek philosophers described the basic principles of the camera, as well as the basic principles of optics.
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Fact #18
Fast forward back to the twentieth century; in the January of 1938, George Valensi made the first proposal for a color television broadcast, therefore sparking many new ideas for the television industry.
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Fact #19
About fifteen years later, in the December of 1953, colored television had finally arrived in the United States.
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Fact #20
Finally, on July 20, 1969, the first moon landing is broadcasted on live television and many Americans excitedly view this historic event.
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Works Cited
I would like to thank the following websites for providing me with the all of the information:www.ehow.comwww.high-techproductions.comwww.amplioaudio.blogspot.com www.inventors.about.com www.timetoast.com