significant moments in the history of music videos

1. Significant moments in the
history of Music videos

2.  1900= Thomas Alva Edison invented the Gramophone
 1933= The Gold Diggers created a production with full
choreography which was recorded onto film
 1938= Alexander Nervsky, Segei Eisenstein (soviet
Russia Propagandist film maker put music over his film,
which was unique at the time.
 1939= Fred Astaire was a huge world wide star, and
brought musical stars to film
 1940= Fantasia was arguably the first music video. Walt
attempted to get people interested in classical music.

3.  1952= Gene Kelly’s singing in the rain was the start of
musical films.
 1961= Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. Television
had become well established by this point, and then West
Side Story was released, introducing musicals into film.
 1960’s= this was Elvis’ time to shine and he took the
decade by storm with a new kind of music; rock and roll.
 Musician’s also performed weekly on the television show
called ‘ready, steady, go.’ with live studio audiences
although the artists mostly mimed.

4.  1970’s= David Bowie, is globally famous, he was very
controversial as he was one of the first singers to
release singles as his alter ego ‘Ziggy Stardust’.
 1975= A classic rock song from world renown classic
rock band Queen; Bohemian Rhapsody.
 1981= MTV hit television, it was anew way for people
to watch the latest music videos, and even now in
2015 it is still running and now produces reality TV
shows and documentories.

5.  1983- Michael Jackson changed music videos forever
with the iconic, 13.43 minute long Thriller music video. It
was so popular that people stayed up until midnight to
watch it when it was released. It is like a horror movie
within a music video, making it so different to anything
that had been previously produced. To this day it is still
one of MJ’s most popular songs and videos.
 Since the invention of more music channels and YouTube
the significance of music videos has plummeted as they
have become more readily available to watch whenever,
where ever.