History of Media Literacy The following timeline, produced by Frank Baker, was organized at the request of Webster University media professor Art Silverblatt. An earlier version appears in the“Praeger Handbook of Media Literacy”(Greenwood, 2013). I am responsible for the content. Anyone who would like to make corrections, suggestions, additions or deletions should send correspondence to me:
[email protected] A Media Literacy Timeline Significant Developments (includes events, publications, conferences and more) The history of media education cannot be told without correlating it with the rise and development of the mass media themselves (cameras, radio, television, film, the Internet). Presented here is a media literacy timeline, with a special note about events, publications, legislation, conferences and proceedings. Exact date unknown: camera obscura principle and device invented (source) 1833: modern day Zoetrope (a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures) invented by British mathematician William George Horner (Source) 1877: the Praxinoscope, an early animation device, was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. (source) 1888: One of the first patented motion-picture film cameras was designed by Louis Le Prince (Source) 1891: Thomas Edison creates/patents the kineotographic camera: The first motion picture camera patented in the United States (Source) 1900: The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris (Source) 1905: Variety begins covering entertainment industries such as vaudeville, films, television, radio, music, and theater (Source) 1907: The Moving Picture World, a weekly movie industry periodical published during the silent film era, becomes the official organ of the Moving Picture Exhibitors’ Association.