The Journey Through Video Production History

By: Khyla Lewis

The first pinhole camera (also

called the Camera Obscura) was invented by Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham). http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

1500

Johann Heinrich Schultz discovered the silver

and chalk method in 1724. The sliding box could capture images by using a mixture of silver and chalk exposed under a light source. http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented

1724

Joseph Niepce achieves first photographic

image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

1814

Alexander Wolcott was the

inventor of the first camera.http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented

1840

Henry Fox Talbot discovered the

calotype process (an early photographic process in which negatives were made using paper coated with silver iodide.) http://www.google.com/#q=calotype+definition

http://photography.lovetoknow.com/First_Camera_Invented

1841

Panoramic camera patented -

the Sutton. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

1859

Oliver Wendell Holmes invents

stereoscope viewer. http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

1861

George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885. His first Kodak box camera was very simple and very cheap. http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

1888

First in color movie made my

Edward Turner a British photographer. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/first-ever-color-movie-found-britain-national-media-museum-bradford-article-1.1158971

1901-1902

The first animated cartoon is

produced. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm#rise

1906

The first 35mm still camera (also called

candid camera ) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras. http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

1913-1914

General Electric invents the

modern flash bulb. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

1927

Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute. http://photodoto.com/camera-history-timeline/

1948

First Video Recorder: The Ampex Corporation

used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists during World War II to create the first video tape recorder, the Ampex VRX-1000. http://www.ehow.com/facts_6038159_history-video-production-equipment.html

1956

The Electronics Engineering

Company (EECO) developed the first time code for electronic editing. http://www.videomaker.com/article/2896-edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of-videotape-editing

1967

CMX 600. This refrigerator-sized editor could store up to

five minutes of black-and-white, low-resolution video on magnetic disk drives. It allowed the operator to access video scenes from the magnetic disk drives, immediately and in any order, to create an edit-decision list from which the system would construct the final master. http://www.videomaker.com/article/2896-edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of-videotape-editing

1971

1973

The time-base corrector (TBC) was able to take the signals from non-broadcast quality VCRs and correct the variations in the high speed scanning and timing pulse. http://www.videomaker.com/article/2896-edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of-videotape-editing

1978

Konica introduces first point-and-shoot, autofocus camera. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

Sony demonstrates first

consumer camcorder. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm

1980

Matsushita introduced a much-improved

version of VHS, called S-VHS. This high-quality format found its niche in smaller broadcast stations, business and industry, and soon began to replace the 3/4- inch U-matic machines. http://www.videomaker.com/article/2896-edit-suite-once-upon-a-time-the-history-of-videotape-editing

1987