History of Video Production

By: Houston Hart

Camera Evolution• Pinhole Camera

• Daguerreotype Camera • Wolcott Camera• Panoramic Camera• Stereoscope Viewer• Kodak roll –film camera• The brownie• The raise camera• 35mm still camera (candid camera)• The Polaroid camera• Konica • Sony• Fuji• Kodak • Apple Quick Take

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Camera Evolution• J-SH04• Cannon EOS 5-D

First Pinhole Camera

• 1500• First Pinhole camera, invented by Alhazen.

The Daguerreotype

• 1839• The Daguerreotype Camera was announced

by the French Academy of Sciences.

Wolcott Camera

• 1840• The first American patent issued in

photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

First Panoramic Camera

• 1859• The panoramic camera patented by Thomas

Sutton.

 Stereoscope viewer• 1861• Oliver Wendell Holmes invents

stereoscope viewer.

 Kodak roll-film 

• 1888• George Eastman patents Kodak roll-

film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. 

The Brownie• 1900• First mass-marketed camera – the

Brownie was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until 1960s.

Raisecamera• 1900• The Raisecamera (travel camera)

was invented. 

First 35mm still camera

• 1913/1914• The first 35mm still camera (also

called candid camera ) developed by Oskar Barnack of German Leica Camera.

Polaroid camera

• 1948• Edwin Land invented the Polaroid

camera which could take a picture and print it in one minute

Underwater Camera • 1960

• EG&G develops extreme depth underwater camera for U.S. Navy.

Point-and-Shoot

• 1978• Konica introduces the first point-and-

shoot, autofocus camera Konica C35 AF. It was named “Jasupin”.

First digital electronic still

camera• 1981• Sony demonstrates the Sony Mavica

– the world’s first digital electronic still camera. 

 First professional digital camera system

• 1991• Kodak released the first professional

digital camera system (DCS) which was of a great use for photojournalists. It was a modified Nikon F-3 camera with a 1.3 megapixel sensor.

 Apple QuickTake 100 • 1994-1996• The first digital cameras for

the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera (February 17 , 1994), the Kodak DC40 camera (March 28, 1995), the Casio QV-11 (with LCD monitor, late 1995), and Sony’s Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).

Canon EOS 5D• 2005• The Canon EOS 5D is launched. This

is first consumer-priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.

First motion Picture•1878

•The First Motion Picture Ever Made

•The Horse In Motion

First full length color movie

• 1935• The first full length color movie• 'Becky Sharpehttp://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question12509.html

FIRST FILM RECORDED

• 1888• Roundhay Garden Scenehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1i40rnpOsA

first American television picture

• 1926•  the first American television picture

is broadcast from Arlington, Virginia to Washington, D.C. It is a picture of a weather map.

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

NBC  Colorcasting

•  November 22, 1953•  "The Colgate Comedy Hour“

• http://www.ev1.pair.com/colorTV/NBCcolortape.html

Warner Bros. Founded

• April 4, 1918

• Warner Bros. Entertainment, Founded