"Television DÈ-Coll/age" exhibition by Wolf Vostell, Smolin Gallery, New York City. First U.S. environmental installation using a television set.
Events by Year
1962
Sony markets 2-inch open-reel videotape for the world's first transistor videotape recorder, the PV-100.
1961
NYS Legislature creates the New York State Council on the Arts. NYSCA receives initial funding of $450,000
1961
The New York State Council on the Arts commissioned Robert Bell to make Watching Ballet, a 16mm film with Jacques D'Amboise and Allegra Kent demonstrating ballet technique. The film, completed in 1963, was used in the Ballet Society's touring educational programs.
1961
Sony demonstrates the world's smallest and lightest videotape recorder (model PV-100), designed for the technological, industrial, educational, medical, sports and arts markets.
1961
SONY announced the world's first transistorized video tape recorder, and two years later SONY's video tape recorder model PV-100 appeared.
1960
During the 1960s representatives of moving image archives, originally known as the Film and Television Archives Advisory Committee (F/TAAC), begin to meet
1960
Work on cooperative networks of time-sharing on computers from 1960 - 1969, sponsored by ARPA. MIT, RAND
1958
Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers develops a committee to establish video standards
1950
USSR launches Sputnik- first artificial earth satellite. In response US creates the Advanced Research Projects Agency with the Department of Defence to increase US science and technology 1950-1959.