The Evolution of Video Production

By: Colton Johnson

1886- The Horse in Motion

• The Horse in Motion was the first ever animated picture made by Eadweard Muybridge. What he did was, he set up a row of cameras with tripwires, and each of these wires would trigger a picture for a second as the horse ran by.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/windows/southeast/eadweard_muybridge.html

1867-Mutoscope

• This was one of the earliest motion picture devises created by Hermann Casler. You could crank it and the pictures would flip through like a book creating animation.

• http://www.precinemahistory.net/1890.htm

1892-12 Lenses Camera

• He used this this camera to video other people in motion as a study of muscle movements.

• http://www.precinemahistory.net/1890.htm

1888-Kinetoscope

• Thomas Edison patented the first Kinetoscope which showed motion pictures that could be viewed in a small box.

http://www.victorian-cinema.net/machines

1892- First Video Camera

• William Kennedy Laurie Dickson made the first 35mm video camera in Edison’s lab in October of 1892. He did this by experimenting with a horizontal camera, a form of the vertical camera, microphotographs, and a Tachyscope. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison in the making of the Kinetoscope.

• http://www.victorian-cinema.net/dickson

1893-Zoopraxiscope

• It allowed you to paint photographs onto the glass, and when spun and projected it would create an animation.

• http://www.precinemahistory.net/1890.htm

1895-First Film

• The Lumiere Brothers were the first people to successfully make a film. It was a 50 second video of a train coming into the La Ciotat Station. Some of the people in the theater were even scared that the train would come and hit them, for this was a technology they had never seen before.

• http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mov/summary/v004/4.1loiperdinger.html

1896-First Projector

• In 1896, the Edison company introduced the first Vitascope projector, which was the first successful projector in the United States.

• http://www.precinemahistory.net/1890.htm

1896-Biograph

• Hermann Casler invented the Biograph which ran on electricity and provided continuous movement. This was in competition with the Kinetoscope.

• http://www.victorian-cinema.net/casler

1896- Cieroscope

• Richard Appleton was the first to make a machine that could take a video, and be able to process and show it, right then and there. It also worked as a printer.

• http://www.precinemahistory.net/1895.htm

1905-The First Movie Theater

• The first movie theater was opened June 19, 1905 in Pittsburg by William Penn and Harry Davis.

• They moved seats into a store and played movies all day.

• These movie theaters were called Nickelodeans because they cost a nickel and the word odean was Greek for theater.

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

1906- First Animated Cartoon

• The first animated cartoon was made by James Stuart Blackton called "Humorous Phases of Funny

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

• Faces.“http://web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364proj/sprg_99/eannotti/1906.htm

1932-Technicolor

• The first full color, three strip Technicolor animated short film (Flowers and Trees) was released. This film won Disney an Oscar for Best Short Subject.

• http://technicolor.umwblogs.org/sources/

1937-Snow White

• The movie Snow White marked a very important time in the history of video production. Snow White was the first feature film that had sound, color, and full length animation. Disney released this film in 1937.

• http://www.waltdisney.org/snow-white

1939- First Commercial Broadcast

• President Franklin Roosevelt's opening of the 1939 New York World's Fair is broadcast live from NBC's experimental station -- W2XBS -- in New York City.

• http://www3.northern.edu/wild/th100/tv.htm

1941- Commercials• In 1947, the first ever commercial station was open and

broadcasting.

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

1950’s-3D

• The first 3D movie was produced in 1953 but it began to die down because it was very costly. It wouldn’t become popular again until the 2000’s.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThreeDMovie

1987- Cable Television

• Half of the homes in the United states received cable television.

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm

1993-Computer Animated Creatures

• Jurassic Park came out in 1993. This was the first live action film to use photorealistic computer animated creatures, life sized puppets, and full digital effects.

• http://fstoppers.com/building-the-animatronic-dinosaurs-for-jurassic-park

1995-Computer Animated Film

• Toy Story was the first film to use computer animation. This film was released into theaters in November of 1995.

• http://www.asifa.org/archive/toystory.php

1996- First DVD

• The first DVD ever pressed and released was Twister in 1996.

• http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t367601-does-anyone-know-the-title-of-the-first-ever-dvd-title-released-uk-us.html

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