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Introduction
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 -
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Music Video History
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Edward B Marks
1894:
sheet music publishers Edward B Marks.
This was the initial development of music video. -
TALKIES
*Arrival of 'Talkies'
*Short sound films in-coperated with synchronized dialogue.
*Walt Disney early creation including Fantasia featured classical pieces
*Became more popular after the release of THE JAZZ SINGER(1927) -
Early 1930's-"Screen Songs"
Cartoon's featured popualr muscians perfoming their hit songs on- camera in live action segments during the cartoons.
Series of cartoon films which encouraged the audiences to sing along the " following bouncing balls" -
Ancestor of Music Video(1930-1940)
Many artists featured in dramatized perfomances of hit songs. -
The Beatles ( 1964-1973)
The Beatles featured in "A Hard Day's night there firdt feature film.Completely shot in balck and white and was presented as Mock documentary. Both comedic and dialgoue scenes were edited with shots of musical sceness in between. -
Begining of Music Televison
Asutralian DJ,Graham Webb launched a new music show aimed at teenagers which became titled as 'Sounds'.
Created a collection of about 25 different clips for the show. Clips were quite successful.
