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First Music Video Filmed At Thomas Edison's Studio
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St. Louis Blues Sound Film Released
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Fantasia 1940
Animated film based off classical music by Disney -
Top of the Pops Aired
A British music chart programme -
A Hard Day's Night Film Released
Stars the Beatles and has lots of musical sequences that some argue laid down the foundations for modern music videos -
Bohemian Rhapsody Released
Only took five hours to edit and all the special effects were done in filming (e.g. camera filters) rather than in editing -
Video Killed the Radio Star
The first music video shown in the United States -
MTV Launched
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Michael Jackson's Thriller Released
A 13 minute long horror themed music video
Was MTV's first world premiere video
Voted as the most influential pop music video of all time -
Take On Me Released
By band A-ha - inspired by science fiction film Tron -
Fantasia 2000
Sequel to Fantasia 1940 -
YouTube Launched
This would soon become the primary way people consume music and music videos -
Hands To Myself Released
Music videos now use sex appeal etc to attract publicity -
Stranger in Paradise - Tony Bennett
Some claim this is the first music video -
Girls on Film
Duran Duran used controversy in this video to promote it as Top of the Pops wouldn't allow certain video content to be shown