History of Video Productionby: Ashlyn Sander

1827

•On a summer day in 1827 Joesph Nicephore Niepce created the first image with a obscura camera.

1839

•In 1839 Sir john F. W. Herschel was the first to use a method of gathering images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material for the high frequency response.

1897

•In 1897 the first television camera employed the early versions of the cathrode ray tube.

1927

•In 1927 voice and video combine with Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer.”

1936

•In 1936 television broadcast was made possible in London.

1951

•In 1951 the first video tape recorder got pictures from TV cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information

1951

•On June 21, 1951 CBS broadcast the first color television show.

1952

•In 1952 Charles Ginsburg led the Ampex research team that developed a machine that could run a tape at different speeds.

1953

•On December 17, 1953 color broadcasting officially arrives in America.

1956

•In November of 1956 the famous movie Wizard of Oz airs for the first time on television.

1960

•On September 26, 1960 the first four “great debates” between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon broadcasted beginning a new way to campaign.

1965

•In 1965 color television booms when NBC network advertises the full color effect.

1967

•In 1967 the first digital audio magnet was invented.

1971

•First available cassette tapes sold in stores.

1975

•In 1975 the first video camera became a available in stores.

1867

•The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln.