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The invention of video allowed people to convey messages and ideas to larger audiences in a way that was never possible beforeInitially, 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 filmmakers 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" 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 Bros. released the first full-length film with sound,

called “The Jazz Singer,” and the first movie that was completely in color was a French short film in 1902.

“The Trip to the Moon.” As video became more and more important to communication

In the 1900s, companies were trying

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.

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 by

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.