Timelineof the

History of Video

Production

Kaitlyn McKinley

-1867

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmotionpictures.htm

The video camera is invented.

-1878

• The first movie, The Horse In Motion,

is filmed

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-first-movie-ever-made-history-film-firsts-679245.html?cat=37

-1888

• The first filming takes place and it was

of people in a garden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQpkIlv_lw&feature=endscreen

-1903

The first silent movie, The Great Train Robbery, is filmed and published.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/trainrobbery.htm

-1908

The first cartoon, Fantasmagorie is created.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swh448fLd1g

-1926

The first feature film with sound was released.

http://www.infoplease.com/cig/movies-flicks-film/brief-history-sound-movies.html

-1926

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue259/tv_firsts.html

The first television broadcast is a picture of a weather map.

-1935

The first full length color film is created and named “Becky Sharpe.”

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question12509.html

-1938

“World News Roundup” is broadcasted for the first time.

http://library.thinkquest.org/18764/television/history.html

-1939

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue259/tv_firsts.html

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first President ever aired on television.

-1941

The first commercial aired in America stated that the Brooklyn Dodgers were playing the Philadelphia Phillies on July 1st, the same year.

http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/watch-the-first-commercial-ever-shown-on-american-tv-1941.html

-1947

The first Sitcom on TV was called Mary Kay and Johnny and was aired November 18th, 1947.

http://www.ask.com/question/what-was-the-first-sitcom-on-tv

-1950

“Hear it now” was first a radio series but was then turned into the first prestigious television news show.

http://library.thinkquest.org/18764/television/history.html

-1957

The first television show was an astronomy series called The Sky At Night was presented by Patrick Moore in England in 1957.

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue259/tv_firsts.html

-1965

Video surveillance cameras started to come into use around 1965.

http://www.qacollections.com/Who-invented-surveillance-cameras

-1972

The first digital camera was invented in 1972 by Steve Sassoon.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldigitalcamera.htm

-1979

The first music video is aired on Mtv and is called Video Killed The Radio Star – The Buggles.

http://voices.yahoo.com/way-back-first-ten-music-videos-air-on-5690926.html?cat=33

-1983

The most watched TV event in the world was in 1983 for the finale of M*A*S*H.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/the-most-viewed-tv-event-ever/?_r=0

-1996

The first DVDs were available in 1996 in Japan.

-1997

The camera phone was invented in 1997 when a man crossed his phone and digital camera while his wife was having a baby

http://news.cnet.com/Who-invented-the-camera-phone-It-depends/2010-1041_3-6172586.html