Monday 29 June 2015

Music video history notes:


Music video history notes:



1914's - First music video was by ‘Bessie smith saint Louis blues'.

 


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1930’s – Len Lye song was made for the post office.

 
1940’s – Fantasia was released by ‘Walt Disney’                                                                                                              

In this time duke boxes appeared and started to become popular but faded our though the war period.

 


 

1950’s/1960’s – This is where the main stream filming for music videos started where people started to get filmed dancing etc. Scopitone jukeboxes were released, by where you pressed a button on the jukebox and it came up with loads of people dancing to go along with the song.

 

 

1970’s – Top of the pops came out in this period. There was then a turning point in music where in music videos the whole price was shot and edited on videotape. The first video to do this was - Queens ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. 

 
 

1980’s - This is when MTV was launched and the first music video ever was aired live.

 


1985 – In 1985 they started to release softer types of music so it would attract in people from an older demographic.

 
1986 – Special effects and animations were introduced and used by Peter Gabriel in his music video.




 

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