History of Motion Media: A Timeline
65 B.C.
1902
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The Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus described the principle of persistence of vision - the optical effect of continuous motion produced when a series of sequential images were displayed, with each image lasting only momentarily.
Belgian optician and showman Etienne Gaspard Robertson's Phantasmagoria - a kind of amusement 'horror show' designed to frighten audiences that became popular in Europe. He produced the show with a 'magic lantern' on wheels (which he called a Phantascope or Fantascope), usually out of view of the audience, to project ghostly-looking, illusory images that changed shape and size, onto smoke or onto a translucent screen The Belgian scientist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau, who had studied the phenomenon of persistence of vision, developed a spindle viewer or spinning wheel called a phenakistoscope (aka Fantascope or Magic Wheel), the first device that allowed pictures to appear to move - and considered the precursor of an animated film (or movie). [The device was simultaneously invented by Austrian Simon von Stampfer.] William George Horner invented the first zoetrope (which he called a daedalum or daedatelum), based upon Plateau's phenakistoscope. George Carey dreamed of a machine that people would use in their homes to view pictures. Pioneering British inventor William Friese- Greene collaborated with John Rudge to make an enhanced magic lantern, one of the earliest motion picture cameras and projectors, termed a Biophantascope, to project photographic plates in rapid succession. French inventor Louis Augustin Le Prince developed a single-lens camera, by moving the film through a camera's sprocket wheels by grabbing the film's perforations. Presumably, it was the first movie ever shot and then shown to the public. Henry Reichenbach developed (and patented) durable and flexible celluloid film strips (or roll film) to be manufactured by the pioneer of photographic equipment, George Eastman, and his Eastman Company. A filmed boxing match between Australian fighter Albert Griffiths (Young Griffo) and Barnett, titled Young Griffo v. Battling Charles Barnett was the first motion picture in the world to be projected onto a screen before a paying audience, at a storefront theatre in New York City. The eight minute B&W silent film premiered on May 20, 1895, more than seven months before the Lumière brothers showed their film in Paris. The first "television" was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) was the first coloured film to ever be made Early portable 16mm film projectors available Audio capabilities are added to moving pictures A scientist from Scotland, named John Baird, developed a way to capture objects in motion. CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program. Unfortunately, nearly no one could watch it on their black-and-white televisions. Philip’s first video laser disc player introduced First hi-fi VCR introduced; 8mm video recording format available to the public; Sony Betacam video recording marketed
Super-VHS and Sony Betacam-SP video recording formats available
Digital video formats introduced; conversion from analog began
Microsoft Video for Windows version 1.0 optimized for capturing movies to disc.
DVD players become commercially available. Many new digital delivery formats introduced, including HDTV, iLife, Youtube, Bit Torrent, Skype, and internet delivery of movies and television programming |
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Television Timeline. (n.d.). Television Timeline. Retrieved October 1, 2014, from http://www.softschools.com/ timelines/television_timeline/31/
The Fascinating History of Color TV That You Should Know. (n.d.). About. Retrieved September 30, 2014, from http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/qt/Color-TV.htm