History Of Video Making
Video production’s origins begin with the first black-and-white picture taken in 1826 by Joseph Niepce. A few years after that, in 1832, Joseph Plateau became the first to simulate moving images in his invention called the phenakistoscope (“spindle viewer”). Following that, in 1870, John Wesley Hyatt developed and patented celluloid for its use as a base in photographic film.
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this he used counter-rotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope.
The phénakisticope (better known as phenakistiscope or the later misspelling phenakistoscope) was the first widespread animation device that created a fluid illusion of motion.
It was only near the end of the century, in 1891 that true motion picture cameras would be invented by Thomas Edison. Eventually, in 1895, the projector would be made available. Color in films appeared in short segments throughout 1902, with full-color ones only showing up in 1918 with the release of “Cupid Angling”. By 1927, films began to include sound. “The Jazz Singer” was the first to have such a development in the form of lip-synchronized singing and musical numbers.
The rise of computers also led to the advancement of other technologies, including video production. In 1964, Sony produced the first portable video recorder, and in 1973 videos could be stored in discs instead of in bulk rolls of film
VHS and laser discs were later developed in 1976 and 1977, respectively. As the years passed by, laserdiscs were eventually also phased out with the introduction of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. In this era, producing and storing videos became easier and more portable, after eliminating the need for the bulking camera and film equipment that the 19th century required.
Today, videos can be found everywhere; from simple television commercials to advertisements and vlogs on social media. This is mostly due to the rapidly increasing availability of video production resources to the common people. The management of the produced video has also become easier as innovators continue to learn of more portable ways of storing much larger file sizes.