Video Tech Timeline

By: Ryan Hall

1797

• John Thomas Smith became the first person to write down the rule of thirds

1839

• First photograph was taken of people

1878

• A series of stereoscopic images of a galloping horse is known as the first motion picture

• Made by Eadweard Muybridge

1888

• First motion picture film camera was made by Louis Le Prince

1899

• first animation movie was made by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper

• Was called Matches: An Appeal

April 11, 1921

• first voice broadcast of a sporting event• Was a boxing match between Johnny Dundee

and Johnny Ray

August 5, 1921

• First baseball game broadcasted on radio• Game was between the Philadelphia Phillies

and the Pittsburg Pirates

1922

• The power of Love became the first 3d film made

September 1, 1928

• First working television was demonstrated to the press by Philo Farnsworth

1929

• Fox introduced the first 70 mm film format

May 17, 1939

• The first televised sporting event took place• It was a college baseball game between the

Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers• Was broadcasted by NBC

August 26, 1939

• First baseball game is televised on station W2XBS

• Game was between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field

September 30, 1939

• First televised football game• Between Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the

Fordham rams

February 25, 1940

• First hockey game was televised from Madison Square Garden

• Game was between New York Rangers and Montreal Canadians

February 28, 1940

• First basketball game was televised from Madison Square Garden

• The game was between Fordham and the University of Pittsburg

July 1, 1941

• Worlds first commercial was made• Came on before a New York Yankee baseball

game • Commercial was for Bulova watches

Later on July 1, 1941

• First quiz show was broadcasted on WNBT• Show was called Uncle Bee and was hosted by

Ralph Edwards

1951

• First successful videotape recorder was made by Ampex

February 28, 1960

• First time the Olympics was televised live in the U.S.

• It was broadcasted by CBS

September 26, 1960

• John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon presidential debate was the first one broadcasted on TV

May 22, 1971

• First IMAX theatre to open permanently

September 1971

• First video cassette, the Sony-U-matic system, was made in Tokyo

1975

• First digital camera was made by Steve Sasson

1978

• First green screen was created

July 23, 1996

• First digital broadcast was made• Was broadcasted by a CBS affiliate of Raleigh,

North Caroilna

1997

• First DVD was created by Phillips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic

March 31, 1998

• First commercial broadcast for a sporting event was made

January 30, 2000

• First sporting event broadcast in HD was Super Bowl XXXIV

• Game was between the St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans

June 2006

• First blu-ray discs were made

February 5, 2012

• Most watched primetime broadcast in the U.S. was of Super Bowl XLVI