HISTORY

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1500`SThe pinhole camera was invented by the Chinese in the 1500’s

but was thought of way before that.

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1727Johann Schulze, a German physicists, discovered that silver

salts turn dark when exposed to light

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18781878 British photographer Eadweard Muybridge takes the first

successful photographs of motion, showing how people and animals move. 

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1887Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

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1888 George Eastman introduces the lightweight, inexpensive

Kodak camera, using film wound on rollers. 

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1891-1895Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures using

Edison's motion picture camera

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1897The first television camera employed early versions of the

cathode ray tube invented in 1897

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1907Use of cathode ray tube to produce television images

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1938Initial proposal for color TV broadcast made by George Valensi

in 1938.

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1951In 1951, the first video tape recorder captured live images from

television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses and saving the information onto magnetic tape.

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1995The first DV camcorder was the Sony DCR-VX1000, introduced

in 1995.

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1953

Color broadcasting officially arrives in the U.S. on Dec. 17

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1956The video camera as it is known today is able to record images

and sound. The first demonstration of this capability took place on 14 April 1956. Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, and Charles Anderson invented the first machine to record both images and sound.

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1964Sony EV format CLB 1BPortable video deviceDeveloped by sony

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1972The RCA Company led production of early video production

equipment in the United States and invented the first handheld mobile video production camera, the TK-44, in 1972.

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1973Capacitance Electronic DiscFirst disc to store videoDeveloped by RCA

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1975The first commercially available video cassette recorder was

the Sony Betamax, introduced in 1975.

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1976VHSStored a few hours of video and was mostly used for moviesDeveloped by RCA

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1977Laser productionThis was early DVD formatDeveloped by Philips, MCA, and pioneer

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1980’SCamcorders became available to the general public in the

1980s

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