The invention of video allowed people to convey messages and ideas to larger audiences in a way that was never possible before. Initially, if you wanted to get an idea out, you had to either write in the paper or travel and give speeches to the group that you wanted to talk to. Then, with the creation of video, all of a sudden,n you could be in multiple places at once. The earliest films did not have audio and did not often have a message but were more of the filmmaking experimenting with the camera. So these films might be of someone walking, making facial expressions, or dancing.
The first recorded video that we know of was made in 1888 by Louis Le Prince and was called the
"Roundhay Garden Scene", and it is a two-second clip of a man and a woman walking.
As time the video would get more advanced and eventually get both audio and color. Which would allow for
clearer and more passionate messages. In 1927, Warner Brothers released the first full-length film with sound,
called “The Jazz Singer,” and the first movie that was completely color was a French short film in 1902, “The Trip to the Moon.”
As video became more and more important to
to find more ways to use video. So, at the 1964 World Fair, AT&T unveiled the picture phone, which was
the first attempt to allow people to both see and talk to each other at the same time. This was almost
completely unrealistic because it required its separate phone line, had a very high cost, and when this
technology was first revealed.
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Many Americans in the 1960s, when the picture phone was revealed, feared
the idea of their face being transmitted from one device to another instead of just their voice. Today none
of us even take a second thought to think we are putting our faces out on the internet, but they would have
viewed video communication the same way many of us view neuralink, the brain implant being made be
Elon Musk's company, and when you put it into that perspective, it’s not that crazy for them to think that.
Before early recorded film, people used objects like Zoetropes, Kinetographs, and Kineoscopes.
The Zoetrope was a cylinder like object that you could peer through a slit in the side
of the object with a
paper strip with different stages in the animation. Giving the illusion of movement. Kinetograph was
designed by Thomas Edison. It was a camera that was able to take a fast burst of photographs. With
modern video, we can look frame by frame as if each frame were its own photo. The Kineograph did
this on a much smaller scale. The kineoscope was also invented by Thomas Edison. This device was
like a single-person movie theater where the film could be viewed through a small peephole. Inside this
large box, a roll of film lights up and plays. Throughout history, humans have attempted to give life-like
movement to inanimate objects, and as time has gone on, we have become better and better up until we
can show the exact moments we make through modern videography and film.
