A music video is a short film r video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. They are mostly used a marketing device, intending on selling and promoting music artists creative materials.
Music Video Timeline
1895- The oldest known film with music was made, it was made with a kinetaphone. This is a device that was developed by Thomas Edison's lab, which showed moving pictures with a phonograph. Within the film, William Dickson, the inventor, plays music from a popular operetta with two men dancing beside him. The sound track was produced seperately by a Wax Cylinder.
The Kinetaphone
The Wax Cylinder
1940- The next piece was created by Disney in 1940. This was in a film called Fantasia which is based around classical music. The first official music video hit the clubs in the USA in 1941, it was played on a Panoram Soudie, which is a jukebox that plays short video clips over layed with music.
1956- Hollywood discovered the invention and genre of music orentated videos. This was the typical era of where Elvis Presley began, this was the 'Rock 'N' Roll' era. Some of the videos in this era were either performance based, or short films.
1962- British Television invented a new form of music television, such as shows like Top of the Pops and Ready, Steady, Go.
1970- The record industry starts to discover these TV shows, and begin to use music videos for promotional videos.
August 1st 1981, is when MTV was officially first launched
1984- Michael Jackson introduces a short film to the music industry, This video being Thriller.
2002- MTV Hits is launched as MTV2 is playing few music videos
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