History Of Music Videos

Oscar fischingerOskar Wilhelm Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for inventing abstract musical animations many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. In his films the cut out paper moves with the beat of the tune, which is one of Goodwin's Rules.

Soundies• Soundies were three-minute musical films, produced in New

York City, Chicago, and Hollywood, between 1940 and 1946, often including short dance sequences, similar to later music videos. The completed Soundies were generally released within a few months of their filming. The films were displayed on the Panoram, a coin-operated film jukebox or machine music, in nightclubs, bars, restaurants, factory lounges, and amusement centers.

Scopitones• Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film

component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. Based on Soundies technology developed during WWII, color 16 mm film clips with a magnetic soundtrack were designed to be shown in a specially designed jukebox.

A hard days nightThis film was made to promote a album and was like a music video, it was new because it hadn't been done before.

Queen bohemian rhapsodyThough some artists had made video clips to accompany songs including Queen, however it was only after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that it became regular practice for record companies to produce promotional videos for artists' single releases. These videos could then be shown on television shows, such as the BBC's Top of the Pops, without the need for the artist to appear in person.

Mtv

First video was called ‘video killed the radio star’ by Buggles, which was a very clever choice because they were in a way saying that they were going to kill radio. MTV was important because it was the first channel which just showed music videos, unlike top of the pops etc. The entire day consisted of just music videos.

YouTube• Brought videos onto internet, made them

global and increased revenue and more people had access to them. Brought around late 2006 and has been owned by Google since the start.