The early era of music videos began in 1965 when music was first merged with film. This was pioneered by George Thomas who synchronized a live music performance with projected images. The Jazz Singer in 1927 was a breakthrough as the first film with both audio and images, allowing performances to be recorded rather than just live. In the 1950s and 1960s, new technologies like Scopitone and jukeboxes made it possible to watch and listen to music videos more widely. Television's first music video was produced in the 1950s as a collection of musical shorts. In the 1970s, the music video further grew as a medium with the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" being the first broadcast on TV, and MTV was