The history of music videos began in the mid-1950s when the first music video was filmed as a marketing device to promote artists' music. Throughout the 1900s and 1940s, visual accompaniments to music developed from early films and animations. In the 1960s, short films were produced in France to accompany songs, and the first music television programs launched in the UK and US. Iconic music videos in the 1970s-1980s by artists like The Beatles, Queen, and Michael Jackson helped establish the music video as an art form. The launch of MTV in 1981 was a major catalyst in the popularity and growth of music videos.

1. History Of Music Videos

2. The Beginning
• Modern music videos primarily used as a
marketing device for promoting artist music.
• The first music video was filmed mid 1950s
• But before then films animators would
accompany music which was known as “visual
music” in order to match the animations.

3. • 1900- Edison invents the gramophone in the USA.
This is where we see the first shift from music as a
solely live experience to recorded audio on various
forms of disc.
• 1927- first sound film, The Jazz singer
• 1940s: peak period of MGM Hollywood musical
• 1940- Walt Disney released Fantasia which was
based on the use of different pieces of classical music

4. • 1960 the scopitone which was a visual jukebox was invented in France and
short films were then produced by French artist, including Serge
Gainsbourg and Francoise Hard to accompany their songs.
• 1963: UK’S FIRST MUSIC TV programme, Ready steady go (ITV)
• 1964- TOP OF THE POPS BEGINS
• The Beatles release the film and album, A Hard Day’s night, shot in black
and white and presented as a mock documentary
• 1975 Queen Bohemian rhapsody

5. • 1981 pop clips on Nickelodeon
• MTV starts
• 1983 Michael Jackson: Thriller
• 1985 VH1 BEGINS
• 1986: Dire Straits: money for nothing Steve Barron is top video
• 1987: MTV- Europe launched, broadcasting to 1.6 homes
• Peter Gabriel: sledgehammer (Stephen Johnson” wins best director
award)
• 1994: R.E.M everybody hurts (Jake Scott) wins best director award
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• Launch of VH1 in UK
• 1999: Fatboy slim: Praise you ( spike jonze|) wins best director award
• 2001: Launch of MTV Dance