History of Film and TV (part #2)

Television Pioneers - Mechanical Process of Television:

*Philip Nipkow *John Baird

Birth of Television

The 'Invention of Television' was developed from the combination of numerous individual inventions and discoveries by engineers during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Tele

Greek word for, "far"

"The Unseen Enemy" (1912)

The CLOSE UP

Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982)

*1923 - Zworykin invented the iconoscope -- a tube for television transmission used in the first cameras. The iconoscope camera tube was later replaced but it laid the foundations for early television cameras. *1924 - Zworykin invented the kinescope - a tube for receiving and displaying the television image. -The design was an improvement to the cathode-ray scanning tube invented in 1897.

The rise of television prompted several attempts to get viewers into the theater:

*1950s - 3-D films (list) *1970s - Disaster films (with Sensurround sound) *Others: -Smell-o-vision

John Baird (1888-1946)

*Advanced the mechanical process of television. *1926 - Gave the first public demonstration of a mechanical television system outside a London department store. *A year later his system advanced to 30 lines of resolution running at 5 fps.

"The Jazz Singer" (1927)

*Al Jolson -One of the most popular stage and film performers of the early 20th Century. *First feature-length film with synchronized dialogue *Most of this 'talkie' film was still silent

"Birth of a Nation" (1915)

*CROSSCUTTING (parallel action) *FLASHBACKS

The Golden Age of Cinema

*From the end of the silent film era in the late 1920s to the early 1960s. *Rise of the Hollywood movie-making machine

Philip Nipkow (1860-1940)

*German engineer who, at 23 years old, proposed and patented the first mechanical television system in 1884. *His theories would be successfully implemented by later mechanical systems. *The scanned-image concept is at the core of today's television systems.

Birth of Television - 1884

*Paul Nipkow uses a spinning disk to flash a pattern of light impressions onto photosensitive cell, which was then sent over wires to a 'receiver.' -18 lines of resolution. Nipkow's disk would be the foundation of continued development of 'mechanical' television.

"Orphans of the Storm" (1921)

*SEAMLESS EDITING (invisible)

Birth of Television - 1923

*Vladimir Zworkin patents his iconscope TV camera tube. -The iconscope transmission tube would become the cornerstone for the 'electronic' process of television.

Birth of Television - 1924

*Vladimir Zworkin patents the kinescope -A television receiver tube based on the cathode-ray tube

Television Pioneers - Electronic Process of Television:

*Vladimir Zworykin *Philo T. Farnsworth

Noted developments during The Golden Age of Cinema

1929 - Technicolor motion picture film introduced by George Eastman

Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971)

American inventor from Utah who in 1927, when he was only 21 years old, created the first electronic television tube. In 1928, He publicly demonstrated the first all-electronic television image.

Visio

Latin word for "vision" or "sight"

Birth of Television - 1927

Philo Farnsworth, files for a patent on the first complete electronic television system, which he called the Image Dissector.