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The History of Music Videos

By iamartinez7

  • 1895

    First introduced in 1894 as a publicity stunt for marketing sheet music, illustrated songs consisted of photographic images painted in color and projected from glass slides, sometimes interspersed with silent moving picture clips. Pianist and vocalists would perform while pictures would show.

  • 1895: The “first” music video is filmed at Thomas Edison’s studio

    1895: The “first” music video is filmed at Thomas Edison’s studio
    The oldest known film with music was made for the Kinetophone, a device developed by Thomas Edison’s lab that showed moving pictures and was also fitted out with a phonograph. In the film, its inventor, William Dickson, plays music from a popular operetta on a violin as two men dance beside him.

  • 1940-1946

    Soundies were displayed on jukebox-like projection machines in bars, restaurants and other public spaces. They were three-minute films featuring music and dance performances.

  • 1960's

    1960's
    The Beatles starred in full-length features such as “Help” and “A Hard Day’s Night.” They also recorded dozens of promotional clips—some with narratives and others composed largely of psychedelic images—that were broadcasted in England and other parts of the world.

  • 1975

    1975
    Bohemian Rhapsody rocketed to the top of the charts in Britain. The band was on tour and couldn’t perform on the British music show, this music video was filmed to play in their absence.

  • 1981

    MTV launches. The music video giant launched at 12.01AM Eastern Time on 1 August 1981 with The Buggles’ video, which had first aired two years previously on Top of the Pops in lieu of a live performance

  • 1992-

    Programs such as "The Real World" began to produce millions of views. MTV decided to take a chance on reality TV, resulting in MTV’s Music Programming decline.

  • 2005-Now

    2005-Now
    The ressurgance of music viedos. In 2005, former PayPal co-workers Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim created YouTube. In October 2006, YouTube was acquired by Google and in 2009, Vevo was born. Vevo meant record labels could actually make money on their videos being streamed —with the help of small adds in videos.