History Of Music Videos

By SajTheLad

Oscar fischinger• Oskar 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. He created special effects and also made over 50 short animated films, and painted around 800 canvases many of which are in museums, galleries and collections worldwide.

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 rhapsody

• Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs (including Queen themselves), 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’ which was a very clever choice because they were in a way saying that they were going to kill radio.

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.