EOTO Reflection Blog Post #6

I have sat through many in-class presentations throughout my time in grade school and today I learned an important topic of the video. My classmates did an excellent job teaching their respective topics. To start with the history of video and what I have learned from it. 

Starting with video the first methods to view film were the zoetrope, kinetograph, and the kinescope. After these early film viewers, video moved into films. In 1888 the first film Roundhay Garden was created where a man and woman walked together outside of their house. To call it a film is an overstatement, to say the least. The next film was in 1902 with A Trip to the Moon. This was the first start of the film industry as we know. 

Also, video as a whole was not just used for film but shifted to communication as an outlet. In 1964 the picture phone was used and this was a literal screen and a phone to communicate. This was a new thing that I learned and it was a very interesting concept that would get adapted into Skype in 2003. After Skype,  Apple and iPhone started the next popular video type with FaceTime. Following FaceTime with the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of workplace video surfaces took off. There are apps like Zoom and Google Meet which are used for school systems and businesses around the world. This is something that I never considered video, but it is and without the presentation, I would have never considered it. 

The most interesting thing that I found out was that the Roundhay Garden Film is considered a film. After watching it, it was very hard for me to believe this was the very first because it was only three seconds. In my eyes, it should be considered a segment. Also, with Skype, I never knew that the program came out in 2003. I remember my cousin using it in 2010 even when FaceTime was around. Video in general is a very interesting topic and still today a growing industry.