TIMELINE OF THE HISTORY OF VIDEO PRODUCTION

By: Addison Morgan

1860

Tearliest known recording was created by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville,

the inventor of the phonautograph. The recordings were not intended for

listening; the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott

sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be

deciphered. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made

playable by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The 10-

second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was

discovered in March 2008 in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio

historians.

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1874

Ernst W. Siemens was the first to describe the "dynamic" or

moving-coil transducer, with a circular coil of wire in a

magnetic field and supported so that it could move axially. He

filed his U. S. patent application for a "magneto-electric

apparatus" for "obtaining the mechanical movement of an

electrical coil from electrical currents transmitted through it".

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1876-1877

Alexander G. Bell patented the telephone - the first

electrical device for audible transmission.

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1876

The first patented in the United States that showed animated

pictures or movies was a device called “wheel of life” or

“zoopraxiscope”. Patnented in 1876 by William Licoln, moving

photographs or drawings were watched through a slit in the

zoopraxiscope. However, this was a far cry from motion pictures

as we know them today. Modern motion picture making began

with the invention of the motion picture camera.

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1876-1878

Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, which uses an engraved wax

cylinder that rotates against a stylus.

Ernest W. Siemens granted patent for a nonmagnetic parchment diaphragm

as the sound radiator of a moving-coil transducer. The diaphragm could take

the form of a cone, with an exponentially flaring "morning glory" trumpet

form. This is the first patent for the loudspeaker horn that would be used on

most phonographs players in the acoustic era.

The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle.“

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1884

1884- George Eastman invents flexible

photographic film.

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1887

1887- Thomas Edison patents motion picture

camera.

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1888

1888- Edison attempts to record picture photos

onto a wax cylinder.

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1891-1895

1891-1895- Dickson shoots numerous 15 second

motion pictures using Edison's kineograph, his

motion picture camera.

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1895

1895- First public demonstration of motion

pictures displayed in France.

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1913