Video...!!
Few things enrapture an audience more than pictures in motion...
But... it's been film...not video... that is the primary medium for motion pictures ever since Eadweard Muybridge first developed the Zoopaxisscope in 1879. However... a revolution has been taking place and video has now emerged as... not only the wave of the future...
But... is taking over the field of motion picture making in the here and now!
So... What Does the Word "Video" Mean...?
When people talk about video... what are they really talking about? 
Genres, such as television versus film?...
- Video formats,
- Imagery,
- Audio,
- Products,
- Equipment, etc?
So... What is "Video"?
Let's start with a good basic definition of the word "VIDEO".
"Video"
(from the Latin verb "videre" meaning "I see"...)
is the technology of electronically...
- Capturing,
- Recording,
- Processing,
- Storing,
- Transmitting and
- Reconstructing
A sequence of still images representing scenes in motion. (Wikipedia)
Early Video Technology...
Video technology was developed to take advantage of the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) developed in 1897 by Ferdinand Braun. 
The Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) is...
A vacuum tube containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent screen, with internal or external means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam. It is used to create images on the fluorescent screen. (Wikipedia)
One of the first men to actually do this was Russian scientist Boris Lvovich Rosing (1869-1933)
And a cathode-ray tube as the receiver...
To transmit black-and-white silhouettes of simple shapes to be displayed on the CRT.
Rosing's system was part mechanical (A mirror and drum apparatus as the "camera")...
And part electrical (The CRT as the receiver).
It did not produce moving images and...the resolution was poor but...
It did set the stage for later development of more advanced video technology.
The real future of video rested in the hands of electrical engineers like Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863-1930) who were looking at ways to build all-electronic video systems.
But at the time gave very few details.
In 1911 he expanded on his 1908 proposal...
He theorized that CRTs not only could be used as a receiver of images but... they could also be modified to capture images as well.
He further theorized that the captured images could be turned into electric signals.
The electrical signals would then be sent through wires to the receiver and displayed there as an image.
In 1911,,, when Campbell-Swinton proposed the all-electronic video system...
The technology to build it did not yet exist!
And other engineers took up the challenge of producing an all- electronic video system.
Over the next twenty years...
Electrical engineers such as
- Philo Farnsworth,
- Kalman Tihanyi and
- Vladimir Zworykin...
And "Video" as we now know it was beginning to be
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