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1780S

A Swedish chemist named Carl Scheele shows that changes in colors using silver salts can be made permanent through the use of chemicals.

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

1826

A French inventor named Nicephore Niepce makes a permanent image by coating a metal plate with a light-sensitive chemical and shining the plate to light for about eight hours.

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

1830S

Louis Daguerre, a French inventor, develops the first practical method of photography by placing a sheet of silver-coated copper treated with crystals of iodine inside a camera and exposing it to an image for 5 to 40 minutes. Vapors from heated mercury developed the image and sodium thiosulfate made the image permanent.

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

1832

The first animation was made.

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production--2

1867

William Lincoln invented the first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies device called the ʺwheel of lifeʺ or ʺzoopraxiscopeʺ.

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production--2

1877

Magic lantern invented America’s first movie studio ʺBlack Mariaʺ.

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production--2

1888

George Eastman introduces the lightweight Kodak camera, using film wound on rollers.

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

1888

Edison attempts to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder.

http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm

1907

Use of cathode ray tube to produce television images.

http://www.high-techproductions.com/historyoftelevision.htm

1911

The first feature film is released when the two reels of D. W. Griffith's Enoch Arden are screened together.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0150210.html

1914

In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous character.

Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon.

1891

Thomas Edison inventing the first

camera to ever record video.

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-film-and-video-production--2

1895

In 1895, a French man named Louis Lumiere invented Cinematograph, a processing unit and projector. People often credit this man as inventing the first video camera.

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1927

In 1927 Phonovision was invented. It was the earliest video format, however, it was never very popular like videos are today. It included basic production abilities, like watching it and playing it back, but not much else.

http://www.about.com/#!/editors-picks/

1940

First proposal for color TV.

http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&espv=210&ie=UTF-8#espv=210&q=when+was+colored+tv+invented

1951

Charles P. Ginsburg invented 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. http://www.about.com/#!/editors-picks/

1950

The American Broadcasting Company first aired Saturday morning TV shows for children on August 19, 1950.

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1954

First color broadcast .

http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/kidszone/history_colortv.html

2005

YouTube is founded.

http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&espv=210&ie=UTF-8#espv=210&q=when+was+youtube+invented