It's difficult for most people to imagine a world without video.  The earliest forms of video date as far back as 1832 when Belgian inventor, Joseph Plateau, invented the Fantascope--a device that simulated motion.  In the late 1800s, French innovator and physiologist Etienne-Jules Marey developed the "photographic gun" which was a camera that could take multiple photographs per second.  In 1892, Thomas Edison and William Dickson created a device for recording movement on film and a second device for viewing the film--they called it the Kinetograph.

 

As film and video production advanced in the late 1800s, video emerged as a form of major entertainment.  The word "cinema" was born in 1895 in Paris, France when the Lumiere brothers presented the first commercial and public exhibition of a projected motion picture using their combo camera and projector device: the Cinematographe.  Movies and cinema became the primary purpose of video production throughout the 1930s.  The number of film releases in the 1930s averaged over 800 film release per year compared to an average of less than 500 releases per year today.

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In the late 1930s, video began to support the emergence of TV broadcasting.  The first television commercial aired in 1941 (Bulova watches paid $9 to have a 10 second ad aired during a Brooklyn Dodgers game against the Phillies in 1941).  In the late 1950s, music videos also emerged as a form of entertainment, as did the first IMAX film, "Tiger Child" in Osaka, Japan.

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Around this same time, advancements in video technology made video recording more accessible for the lay person and instructor.  Technology-based training, which includes video learning, emerged as an alternative to instructor-led training in the 1960s.  As computer technology improved so, too, did the ability for modems to support high quality video and sound.  Video improved significantly as computer-based technology expanded rapidly.  The Go-Pro and the smart phone were both notable technology advancements in the 2000s that allowed for rapid and personal expansion of individual video recording.

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Nowadays, video technology is so widely accessible that almost anyone can set up a camera and record themselves doing just about anything.  Instructors are increasingly capitalizing on the use of video to advance and integrate more personal and differentiated learning for students.  Check out other parts of this website to learn about how you, too, can integrate video to advance learning for your students.

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References: 

https://www.jlbmedia.com/history-of-video-production-infographic/

https://www.preceden.com/timelines/272172-history-of-video-production

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