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History of Video Production. By Jordan Webb * Note: Unfortunately, I neglected to put this slideshow in chronological order. Fact #1. In 1897, the first television cameras employed early versions of the cathode ray tube. www.ehow.com. Fact #2.
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History of Video Production By Jordan Webb *Note: Unfortunately, I neglected to put this slideshow in chronological order.
Fact #1 In 1897, the first television cameras employed early versions of the cathode ray tube. www.ehow.com
Fact #2 In 1972, the RCA Company led production of early video production equipment in the U.S. and invented the TK-44; the first handheld mobile video production camera. www.ehow.com
Fact #3 In 1956, during World War II, the Ampex Corporation used magnetic tape technology pioneered by German scientists to create the Ampex VRX-1000; the first video tape recorder. www.ehow.com
Fact #4 In 1975, the Sony Betamax, the first commercially available VCR (video cassette recorder), was introduced. www.ehow.com
Fact #5 In 1884, George Eastman invented flexible photographic film. www.high-techproductions.com
Fact #6 In 1887, the famous Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera. One year later, Edison attempted to record picture photos onto a wax cylinder in 1888. www.high-techproductions.com
Fact #7 In France, during 1895, the first public demonstration of motion pictures were displayed. www.high-techproductions.com
Fact #8 The iconoscope, the forerunner of the picture tub was patented in 1923. www.high-techproductions.com
Fact #9 Oftentimes, the Frenchman Louis Lumiere is given credit for inventing the original motion picture camera in 1895, but many other inventors did pretty much the exact same thing. www.inventorsabout.com
Fact #10 Even though he is called the “Father of motion picture,” EadweardMuybridge didn’t make films in the manner we know today. www.invetorsabout.com
Fact #11 Richard M. Hollingshead was the first to open and patent a drive-in theater. www.inventorsabout.com
Fact #12 While famous for being the creator of Mickey Mouse, the famous Walt Disney also invented the multi-plane camera. www.inventorsabout.com
Fact #13 In 1902, Edward Raymond Turner shot a test film, based on his 1899 patents, and it became the earliest color film. www.amplioaudio.blogspot.com
Fact #14 In 1906, Lee DeForest invented the first electronic signal amplifier: the triode vacuum tube. www.amplioaudio.blogspot.com
Fact #15 In 1907, Boris Rosing filed his first patent on a television system. www.amplioaudio.blogspot.com
Fact #16 In 1913, Thomas Edison demonstrated the first “talking movie.” www.amplioaudio.blogspot.com
Fact #17 Hundreds of years earlier, around 4 or 5 B.C., Chinese and Greek philosophers described the basic principles of the camera, as well as the basic principles of optics. www.timetoast.com
Fact #18 Fast forward back to the twentieth century; in the January of 1938, George Valensi made the first proposal for a color television broadcast, therefore sparking many new ideas for the television industry. www.timetoast.com
Fact #19 About fifteen years later, in the December of 1953, colored television had finally arrived in the United States. www.timetoast.com
Fact #20 Finally, on July 20, 1969, the first moon landing is broadcasted on live television and many Americans excitedly view this historic event. www.timetoast.com
Works Cited I would like to thank the following websites for providing me with the all of the information: www.ehow.com www.high-techproductions.com www.amplioaudio.blogspot.com www.inventors.about.com www.timetoast.com