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When taking a journey back in time to look at the history of videos, one has to start with film, since that\u2019s where the<\/span> magic of motion pictures<\/span><\/a> started. In fact, film history dates back to 1891 when the Edison Company successfully demonstrated the Kinetoscope invented by Thomas Edison\u2019s assistant William Kennedy Dickson. This was the first device to show moving pictures. Three years later, the Kinetoscope was commercialized in parlors where one patron at a time could watch short movie clips through a peephole viewer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Although it is sometimes cited as the earliest documented film in history, <\/span>The Horse in Motion<\/span><\/i> by English photographer Eadweard Muybridge was a series of cabinet cards that pictured a sequential series of six to twelve “automatic electro-photographs” depicting the movement of a horse. Shot by Muybridge in June 1878, these photos are the first known example of chronophotography, an important step in the development of<\/span> motion pictures<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The honor of the oldest surviving film in existence goes to <\/span>Roundhay Garden Scene<\/span><\/i>. The one-minute silent short was recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince in Leeds in the north of England on October 14, 1888. Interestingly, Le Prince is largely unknown today, even though he was granted patents on both a 16-lens device and a single-lens type several years before either Thomas Edison or the Lumi\u00e8re brothers. Le Prince mysteriously disappeared on September 16, 1890, and was never seen again, despite an exhaustive search by French police and Scotland Yard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Louis and Auguste Lumiere, the two French brothers who developed a camera-projector called the Cinematographe are credited for the first commercial movie screening. On December 28, 1895, a film made by the Lumiere brothers was unveiled to the public at the Grand Caf\u00e9 in Paris. The Cinematographe was smaller, lighter, and used less film than Edison\u2019s technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Looking back at <\/span>video camera history<\/span>, the first question that springs to mind is, \u201c<\/span>Who invented the video camera<\/span>?\u201d The <\/span>first video camera<\/span> was invented by Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, when he created a variation of an older device known as a Nipkow disk. This mechanical device broke an image into \u201cscanlines\u201d using a rotating disc with holes cut into it. This innovation led to Baird developing the first television, a dream many scientists had thought about for decades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In 1924, Baird transmitted a flickering image across a few feet and on January 26, 1926, gave the world’s first demonstration of a true television for 50 scientists gathered in an attic in central London. In 1927, Baird\u2019s television was demonstrated over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow, after which he formed the Baird Television Development Company. The following year, his company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission between London and New York and the first transmission to a ship in the mid-Atlantic. At this time, he was also able to give a demonstration of the first known color and stereoscopic televisions. By the 1930s, new all-electronic designs based on a cathode-ray video camera tube replaced mechanical variations with electron scanning technology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In 1950, both CBS and RCA were competing to be the first to release a color television. When the FCC tested the two systems, the CBS TV was approved, while the RCA model wasn\u2019t due to low picture quality. RCA ultimately won the color TV war when its far superior model gained FDA approval on December 17, 1953. Achieving optimal bandwidth required to broadcast color programming enabled RCA to tape shows in red, green, and blue and then broadcast them to television sets. But the public didn\u2019t start buying color TVs in earnest until the 1960s because early sets were extremely expensive. By the 1970s, color TV sales outpaced black-and-white models for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Launched on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla, the Telstar 1 satellite was the world’s first active communications satellite. Two days later, the first global television signal was transmitted from Maine to Brittany, France. The first images in the broadcast included views of the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower, remarks from President John F. Kennedy, clips from a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs, shots of the American flag waving in the breeze, and images of French singer Yves Montand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to VHS<\/span><\/a> becoming the go-to media for taking and watching movies, Super 8 movie cameras were all the rage. Although Betamax video technology hit the market first in 1975 and featured a superior picture quality, it was quickly dethroned by<\/span> VHS<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Introduced by Sony and Panasonic in 1995,<\/span> the MiniDV<\/span><\/a> was considered a state-of-the-art recording format and a far more compact option for home recording than the large VHS camcorders. Although MiniDV tapes were cassettes, the quality was comparable to digital quality picture and sound. But like any technology, a new kid called DVD was waiting in the wings to dethrone both VHS and the MiniDV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With more storage, better picture and audio quality, interactive features, and no need to rewind, it\u2019s no wonder DVD quickly became the new video king when it was introduced in 1997. By 2000, DVDs had nearly replaced shelves stocked with VHS tapes. Although digital streaming has taken over the world, the DVD media format is still widely accepted and used by people of all ages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWhen Was The First Movie Made?<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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When Was The Video Camera Invented<\/b>?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
Early Video and Television Technology<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
Launch of Color TV\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Satellite TV\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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<\/h2>\nThe Rise of VHS\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Evolution of DVDs<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
The Streaming Age Takes Center Stage\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n