Music Video Timeline

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  • The Little Lost Child

    The Little Lost Child is a popular song of 1894 by Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern. Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen during live performances of the song. As a result of the illustrated song performances, "The Little Lost Child" became a nationwide hit, selling more than two million copies of its sheet music.
  • BatCat, Jetpack

    BatCat was a band that recorded instruments such electric guitars. the video was famous for their experiment with electromagnetism. Also, the BatCat, Jetpack music video was animation. This was recorded produced by the gramophone.
  • Strawberry Fields Forever

    Strawberry Fields Forever promo film that is most important, featuring reverse, slow motion, fades, camera filters and slow mixes, and a collection of unusual, slightly imposing camera angles.
  • Space Oddity

    Bowie's most famous songs, "Space Oddity," from aboard the International Space Station. "Space Oddity" came out in 1969, the same year American astronauts landed on the moon, prompting many to think the lunar landing inspired the song.
  • Bohemian Rhapsody

    Queen’s epic “Bohemian Rhapsody” made the number one spot in 1975, they recorded a special video for the occasion, featuring the band performing the beginning and end of the song on stage, and with a collection of stunning visual images using the latest video editing technology accompanying the middle “opera” section.
  • Video Killed The Radio Star

    Video Killed the Radio Star is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1978. It is well-remembered as the first music video shown on MTV in the United States at 12:01 am on 1st August 1981.
  • Material Girl

    Material Girl incorporated New Wave music (known as a sub-genre​ of rock music) and consists of synth arrangements with a robotic voice repeating the hook.
  • YouTube

    Youtube allows you to watch music videos whenever you want. It also allows the public to upload their own videos.
  • The Johnny Cash Project

    This project allows anyone to produce and contribute to the music video. The site gives you options of screen grabs from the music video that you can re create and add to the Johnny Cash video. This is an example of web 2.0 as it is allowing the audience to interact with the video rather than just consume it.