TIMELINE PRODUCTION
BY: DARREN SIMINGTON
THE FIRST CAMERA
The Obscura camera was invented by Joseph
Nicephore Niepce a retired french army officer, who
made the world’s first true photograph of a scene the
camera was invented in 1826 in St-Loup-de-verennes,
France.
WHAT THE CAMERA CONSISTED OF?
The camera consisted of two wooden boxes,one
carrying lens and the ground-glass screen. The boxes
were connected by bellows so that the distance
between the lend and screen could be varied.
FIRST T.V. BROADCAST
• 1926: the first American television picture is
broadcast from Arlington, Virginia to Washington,
D.C. It is a picture of a weather map. 1938: The NBC
New York station carries the first live unscheduled
news story when their mobile unit spots a fire raging
on Ward’s Island.
• 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first
incumbent President to appear on television when
he gives the opening address at the New York
World’s Fair.
• 1941: CBS and NBC are granted the first commercial
television licenses for their New York stations on the
same day so neither network can claim to be the
“first.”
• By 1945, fewer than 7,000 TV sets are in American
homes and there are only nine broadcasting
stations. They are in New York City (3 stations),
Chicago (2), Los Angeles (2), Philadelphia (1), and
Schenectady, NY (1).
WHAT WAS THE FIRST T.V. MADE
The first working television was made by Philo
Farnsworth in 1928 and it first displayed the system to
the press on 1st of September 1928. Philo invented a
working TV system that included an electronic
scanning of the pickup and display devices.
WHEN WAS THE VIDEO TAPE
RECORDER MADE
• In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR)
captured live images from television cameras by
converting the information into electrical impulses
WHEN WAS THE FIRST CARTOON MADE
• The first animated picture was Humorous Phases of
Funny Faces (1906) by J. Stuart Blackton. He was a
newspaper cartoonist and one of the co-initiators of
the Vitagraph Company. It was the most basic
surviving instance of an animated film, and the first
cartoon to apply the single frame method.
WHEN WAS TELEVISON PRODUCTION
MADE
• In the 1920's, John Logie Baird patented the idea of
using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images
for television. Baird's 30 line images were the first
demonstrations of television by reflected light rather
than back-lit silhouettes. John Logie Baird based his
technology on Paul Nipkow's scanning disc idea
and later developments in electronics.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST CARTOON
CHARACTER
• One of the oldest cartoon characters is Gertie the
Dinosaur. This character was not only the first female
cartoon character, but beginning in 1914, it was the
first real character with a personality
WHEN WAS THE FIRST CARTOON
SHOW AIRED
• Several children's shows emerged in the late 1940s
and early 1950s including The Small Fry Club,
Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, and Robert E.
"Buffalo Bob" Smith's Howdy Doody Time. The
Columbia Broadcasting System began airing
animated cartoons in 1955 under the title "The
Mighty Mouse
WHEN WAS MICKEY MOUSE MADE
• Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character
and the official mascot of The Walt Disney
Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub
Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928.
WHEN WAS THE FIRST GREEN SCREEN
MADE
• The green screen was created only 10 years before
the blue screen even though they were essentially
used for the same functions. Larry Butler invented
the green screen for his special effects in the 1940
film "The Thief of Bagdad."
WHEN WAS THE FIRST MOVIE MADE
• “The Horse in Motion,” made in 1878, is often designated as
the first. It was a series of stereoscopic images of a galloping
horse.
• Muybridge gave many demonstrations of his primitive motion
pictures, and at the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, in
1893, he lectured on the “Science of Animal Locomotion” in
the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose. He
used his zoopraxiscope, which was an early type of movie
projector, to show his movies to a paying public, making the
Hall the first commercial movie theater.
• The earliest film with a narrative was “The Roundhay Garden
Scene,” made in 1888 by inventor Louis Le Prince. It’s 2.1
seconds long!
THE WHEN WAS THE FIRST PHONE
MADE
• The telephone is one of the greatest inventions in
history. Early telephones were nothing like the ones
we have today. Telephone is the Greek word for
“far sound.” This is how the telephone became
what it is today.
• The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham
Bell in 1876, with the help of his assistant Thomas A.
Watson. Mr. Bell was originally from Scotland and
came to Boston, Massachusetts in 1872. Mr. Bell got
the idea for the telephone from a German inventor,
Hermann von Helmholz.
THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEOS MADE
• music video is a short film or video that
accompanies a piece of music. Modern music
videos are primarily made and used as a marketing
device intended to promote the sale of music
recordings. Although the origins of music videos
date back much further, they came into
prominence in the 1980s, when MTV based their
format around the medium.
T.V. TIMELINE
• 1897 K.F. Braun invents the cathode-ray tube.1906
Reginald Fessenden invents wireless telephony, a means
for radio waves to carry signals a significant
distance.1912 The Radio Act of 1912 assigns three- and
four-letter codes to radio stations and limits broadcasting
to the 360m wavelength, which jams signals.1920 KDKA,
a Pittsburgh Westinghouse station, transmits the first
commercial radio broadcast.1922 Reacting to problems
posed by the Radio Act of 1912, the Commerce
Department allows powerful stations to use the 400m
wavelength as long as they only broadcast live
music.1923 Russian immigrant Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
patents the iconoscope, the first television transmission
tube. He patents the first color tube in
• 1925 Radio's The Smith Family introduces the soap opera
format.1926 RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse
establish NBC, which operates two national radio
networks.1927 Philo Farnsworth transmits the first allelectronic television image.1928 John Baird beams a
television image from England to the United States.GE
introduces a television set with a 3" × 4" screen.The first
television is sold — a Daven for $75.1929 CBS is founded
by William S. Paley.1930 Crossley Inc. tabulates the first
formal radio ratings system.1931 There are nearly 40,000
television sets in the United States; 9,000 of them are in
New York City alone.1933 Edwin Armstrong introduces
Frequency Modulation (FM), a static-free method of
transmission.
• 1934 The Communications Act of 1934 creates the
Federal Communications Commission, which regulates
broadcasting.1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) debuts the world's first television service with three
hours of programming a day.1937 Edgar Bergen and his
puppet Charlie McCarthy make their television debut on
NBC.1938 Orson Welles broadcasts his adaptation of
H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds on October 30, creating a
nationwide panic as listeners believe that aliens have
landed in New Jersey.Information Please quiz show
debuts on radio.1939 Robert Kane introduces the
Batman cartoon.
• 1940 CBS demonstrates color television in New York.WNBT, the
first regularly operating television station, debuts in New York
with an estimated 10,000 viewers.It's a bird! It's a plane! It's
Superman! The radio show debuts.The first Bugs Bunny
cartoon.1943 Radio classic Amos 'n' Andy is canceled after 15
years and more than 4,000 consecutive shows.1944 The first
instance of network censorship occurs. The sound is cut off on
the Eddie Cantor and Nora Martin duet, “We're Having a
Baby, My Baby and Me.”The DuMont network goes on the air.
Paramount Pictures backs the start-up enterprise, but its lack
of affiliated radio networks leads to its early demise in
1956.1945 The orthicon tube, developed by RCA, improves
light sensitivity a hundredfold.The FCC creates the commercial
broadcasting spectrum of 13 channels, and 130 applications
for broadcast licenses follow.1946 Faraway Hill, what many
television historians consider to be the first network soap
opera, debuts on the DuMont network.