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The Little Lost Child
The Little Lost Child was a very popular song from the 1890's by Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern and sold more than 2 million copies. This song was the first ever illustrated song, which was the first sign of an early stage of a music video. -
Talkies
Talkies was a short Musical Film produced by the Warner Bros. that also features many bands, vocalists and dancers. This short music film was also animated and introduced a sing alog of short cartoons called screen songs that everyone gathered to see. -
Bessie Smith St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues was first showcased in cinemas around 1932 and was also one of the first music videos created. The idea of music videos at the time were to promote the sale of music recordings. -
1950's: Early Music Clips
Tony Bennett says in his autobigraphy that he created the first music video in Hyde Park in London in 1956 when he was recording a song called 'Stranger in Paradise' which was then sent to UK and US telivision stations to be aired. In 1957, Elvis Presley recorded a music video for a song called Jailhouse Rock. This was shown in black and white even though the original was engraved in colour. -
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
This music video started a new era of music videos. This was also the introduction to 'Top of the Pops' which would promote the music that were in the charts at the time. -
Thriller
The Michael Jackson Thriller video was one of the first music videos to have a plot to it and to have a narrative side. Music videos were really being seen as promotion and made into high- budget productions. -
YouTube
2005 saw the launch of the website, YouTube. This made viewing online videos much faster and easier. A lot bands and artists started to create YouTube channels promoting their music videos. Youtube made viewing music videos a lot easier as the videos are all kept in one place. -
MTV
MTV was first aired im 1981 which provided you with all the latest music videos. The first video shown was 'Video Killed The Radio Star' and was a real break through in the evolution of music videos.
