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The first music video
In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song "The Little Lost Child". Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances.
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"Talkies"
In 1926, with the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced -
"Soundies"
Soundies, produced and released from 1940 to 1947, were musical films that often included short dance sequences, similar to later music videos. -
Shorts
In the mid-1940s, musician Louis Jordan made short films for his songs, some of which were spliced together into a feature film Lookout Sister. These films were, according to music historian Donald Clarke, the "ancestors" of music video -
Tony Bennett's "first music video"
In his autobiography, Tony Bennett claims to have created "...the first music video" when he was filmed walking along the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London in 1956, with the resulting clip being set to his recording of the song "Stranger in Paradise". The clip was sent to UK and US television stations and aired on shows including Dick Clark's American Bandstand. -
Oldest promotional music video
The oldest example of a promotional music video with similarities to more abstract, modern videos seems to be "Dáme si do bytu" ("Let's get to the apartment") created in 1958 and directed by Ladislav Rychman.
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The start of MTV
On Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time, MTV launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11. -
MTV's first video
The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star" originally only available to homes in New Jersey
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Why did artists start to create music videos?
Artists started to create music videos to increase the sales of their singles. The better the video, the more sales the song would make because viewer would want to see the video again the following week. Music videos are also a good method to promote yourself as an artist and allow the audience to recognise who you are. -
"Thriller" Video
Widely regarded as the most influential pop video of all time, this 14-minute epic featured Jackson as a shape-shifting monster, backed by an army of choreographed zombie dancers. From chilling Vincent Price sprechgesang to hideous prosthetics, Thriller was more like a horror short than a music video.
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Peter Gabriel-Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel's workaday funk-rock number was brought to life by a hugely popular stop-motion, clay-animated video, some of which was animated by Wallace and Gromit's Plasticine maestro Nick Park. Won nine MTV Video Music Awards in 1987, and vies with Thriller for the most played video of all time on MTV.
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Modern Music Video's
The quality of music videos has improved massively over time. This is mainly down to the development of editing materials and programmes available to create music videos on.
Our music video would fit in with this because we will be using modern cameras and editing software to make it look as professional as possible.