History of Video
Production
Timeline
Victor Camacho
8th Grade
6th Period
1825- World’s First Photo
 Joseph
Nicéphore Niépce was the first to
take the world’s first photograph.
 http://photography.nationalgeographic.c
om/wallpaper/photography/photos/miles
tones-photography/niepce-first-photo/
1867- The first motion picture
camera
 The
first machine that show animated pictures or
movies was called the kinetograph
 The inventors of the kinetograph were Thomas
Edison & William Dickson.
 http://jlbmedia.com/video-production-history
1902- The 1st full colored film



Edward Turner was the first to film a colored
film.
He filmed some London street scenes in full
color.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmnews/9538882/Worlds-first-colour-filmunveiled.html
1903- The first real motion
picture smash hit

Edwin S. Porter developed the first smash hit film
“The Great Train Robbery.
http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/453459%7C193614/The-Great-TrainRobbery.html
1905-The first movie theater
ever made
 The
first movie theater ever made was in
Pittsburg, Penn created by Harry Davis
and John P. Harris.
 http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/first-
movie-theater.html
1907- The camera dolly
 Segundo
de Chomón invented the
camera dolly.
 http://www.howstuffworks.com/5-
filmmaking-innovations2.htm#page=2/
1928- America’s 1st T.V station
 America’s
“W3XK”.
first T.V station was called
 http://www.wired.com/tag/w3xk/
1938- The first Disney movie
 Snow
White was released in February
4,1938.
 http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-
first-10-disney-movies-that-were-evermade
1941-America’s 1st T.V
Commercial
 America’s
1st T.V commercial was about a
10-second advertisement about Bulova’s
clocks and watches.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/
watch-the-first-commercial-evershown-on-american-tv-1941.html
1957- the first music video
 Elvis’s
“Jailhouse Rock” was the world’s
first music video.
http://jlbmedia.com/videoproduction-history
1965- The CD was made
 James
Russell invented the Compact
Disk(CD)
 http://inventors.about.com/od/qrstartinve
ntors/a/CD.htm
1992- Cartoon Network’s first
show
 The
Moxy Show was the network’s first
original show.
 http://madeira.hccanet.org/project2_201
0/woodwardp2/history.html
1997-When Netflix was
founded

Reed Hasting and software executive Marc
Randolph co-founded Netflix for movie
rentals.

https://pr.netflix.com/WebClient/loginPageSal
esNetWorksAction.do?contentGroupId=10477
1997-Disney Channel’s 1st
show
 Flash
Forward was Disney Channel’s first
original show.
 http://www.tv.com/shows/flash-forward-
1997/
2000- the first phone with a
camera
 Samsung
released a new SCH-V200 1.5
inch TFT-LCD with a built-in camera.
 http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ca
mera-phone-history/
2002-The wearable camera

Nick Woodman became the founder and inventor
of the GoPro camera.

https://www.malakye.com/Features/CompanyQA
/3518/GoPro-with-Founder-Inventor-NickWoodman.aspx
2005-YouTube was created
 Steve
Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed
Karim invented YouTube.
 http://inventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinv
entions/a/YouTube.htm
2007- VHS ends

VCR and VHS production ends

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/vcrf1c3cd37-dbfc-4cf8-9be4-73e3d992224b
1927- The 1st sound film
“
Don Juan” was the first film to apply
sound the film.
 http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question3
217.html
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