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Moving Picture Cameras
Many inventors started working on moving picture cameras (motion picture cameras)
Thomas Edison and William Friese-Greene actually invented the camera. -
First Rotating Disc
German inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow developed a rotating disc technology called the Nipkow disk to transmit pictures over wires -
First western movie
The first western movie produced called “ The Great Robbery” -
attempted to make a mechanical television
Early inventors attempted to build either a mechanical television based on Paul Nipkow's rotating disks or an electronic television using a cathode ray tube developed independently in 1907 by English inventor A.A. Campbell-Swinton and Russian scientist Boris Rosing. -
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producing one reelers
David Wark Griffen he worked for biograph In New Jersey and produced hundreds of one reelers -
The Kinetophone
The Kinetophone was made in 1910 making talkies (speaking films) possible. -
Using Rays
John Logie Baird patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television -
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The first TV station
In the late ‘20s and early ‘30s the first TV station was W3XK, created by Charles Francis Jenkins first aired July 2, 1928. -
Invented a Mechanical Television
Charles Francis Jenkins invented a mechanical television system called Radiovision and claimed to have transmitted the earliest moving silhouette images on June 14, 1923 -
First length talkie
The first feature length talkie was made “The Jazz Singer,” it starred Al Jolson -
Technicolor
In 1935 audiences could view films in technicolor with the release of Becky Sharp. Two-color film had been available in 1922 but wasn’t often used. -
Commercial Stations
By 1940 there were 98 commercial stations -
Widescreen
Once the television was invented film needed to step up, they came up with the widescreen processes to produce bigger films -
First 3D film
The first 3D film was also created in 1953, it had been attempted before but the widescreen made it possible