Brief History of Film, Video, and Television Technology

1872 - 1877
Eadweard Muybridge shoots a series of motion photographs, which can beviewed by mounting them to a stroboscopic disc.
1884
George Eastman invents flexible photographic film.
1887
Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera, though it cannot produce images.
1888
Thomas Edison and William Kennedy Laurie Dickson attempt to record motion picture photos onto a wax cylinder.
1891 - 1895
Dickson shoots numerous 15 second motion pictures using Edison'skinetograph, his motion picture camera.
1895
First public demonstation of motion pictures displayed in France.
1897
Development of the cathode ray tube by Ferdinand Braun.
1907
Use of cathode ray tube to produce television images.
1923
Patent for the iconoscope, the forerunner of the modern television picture tube.
1927
Talking films begin with Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer".
Early 1930s
RCA conducts black and white broadcasting experiments.
1936
First television broadcast made available in London.
1938
Initial proposal for color television broadcast made by George Valensi.
1949
System developed to transmit chrominance and luminance signals in a single channel.
1950s
Hollywood looks to recover profits lost to television by introducing such formats as 3D and Cinemascope.
1954
FCC authorizes the NTSC standard for color television broadcast in the United States.
1975
Sony markets the first Betamax VCR for home viewing and recording of video.
1976
JVC introduces the VHS format to the VCR arena.
1976
Dolby Laboratories introduces Dolby Stereo for movies.
1978
Philips markets the first video laser disc player.
1984
The first Hi-Fi VCR is introduced.
1985
The broadcast of stereo television.
1994
Standard agreed upon for high definition television transmission in the United States.

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