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History of Film & Video (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film)

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  • Stereoscopic Camera

    Stereoscopic Camera
    On June 19, 1872, under the sponsorship of Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named "Sallie Gardner" in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras.

  • First Motion Picture Projected

    First Motion Picture Projected
    It was not until their father retired in 1892 that the brothers began to create moving pictures. They patented a number of significant processes leading up to their film camera, most notably film perforationsas a means of advancing the film through the camera and projector. The cinématographe itself was patented on 13 February 1895 and the first footage ever to be recorded using it was recorded on March 19, 1895. This first film shows workers leaving the Lumière factory.

  • Motion Animated

    Motion Animated
    The most important development in this area of special techniques occurred, arguably, in 1899, with the production of the short film Matches: An Appeal, a thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War.

  • India's First Full Film

    India's First Full Film
    The film, based on a mythological character, was released in 1913 and was India’s first full-length feature film

  • first Talking Movie (Thomas Edison)

    first Talking Movie (Thomas Edison)
    Nineteen talking pictures were produced in 1913 by Edison.

  • First Colored Movie

    First Colored Movie
    The first movie in color was a silent film called Cupid-Angling, released in 1918, produced by Leon F. Doglass's National Color Film company in Marin country, California. (http://www.ask.com/answers/108217241/what-was-the-first-movie-in-color)

  • First Television Showing

    First Television Showing
    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)

  • First Pocket Transitor Radio

    First Pocket Transitor Radio
    A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954 they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went. In the 1970s their popularity declined as other portable media players such as boom boxes and portable cassette players

  • Videotape Recorder

    Videotape Recorder
    The small Ampex Corporation came up with the ideas of using rotating heads, transverse scanning, and FM encoding which allowed broadcast quality recording at 15 inches/second and 90 minutes per reel. (http://www.cedmagic.com/history/ampex-commercial-vtr-1956.html)

  • First Motion Picture

    First Motion Picture
    Photographer Eadweard Muybridge uses high-speed stop-motion photography to capture a horse’s motion. The photos prove that the horse has all four feet in the air during some parts of its stride. The shots settle an old argument … and start a new medium and industry. (http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/06/dayintech_0615/)