A History of Music Videos

In this timeline I will investigate the growth of music videos through the ages

21st October 1930

Disney

Early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and especially Fantasia, which featured several interpretations of classical pieces, were built around music.

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12th October 1949

Visual Jukebox

A visual jukebox, was invented in France and short films were produced by many French artists, such as Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel, and Jacques Dutronc to accompany their songs.

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9th February 1956

Stranger in Paradise

Tony Bennett believes that he created the first modern music video. He filmed his music video in Hyde Park

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12th January 1964

Top of the Pops

The show was broadcasted weekly to promote artists. These performances became music videos for numerous songs we still know today

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11th May 1964

Go Now

In 1964, The Moody Blues producer, Alex Murray, wanted to promote his version of "Go Now". The short film clip he produced and directed to promote the single has a striking visual style that predates Queen's similar "Bohemian Rhapsody" video by a full decade

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14th November 1964

A Hard Day's Night

The Beatles starred in their first feature film A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester. Shot n black-and-white and presented as a mock documentary, it interspersed comedic and dialogue sequences with musical tones

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17th November 1965

Help!

The Beatles' second feature Help! was filmed in colour in London and on international locations. The title track sequence, filmed in black-and-white, is arguably one of the prime archetypes of the modern music video, employing cross-cutting, contrasting long shots and close-ups, and unusual shots and camera angles, such as the shot 50 seconds into the song, in which George Harrison's left hand and the neck of his guitar are seen in sharp focus in the foreground while the completely out-of-focus figure of John Lennon sings in the background.

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11th August 1968

If I Can Dream

Elvis Presley made music videos for his later songs but not for his early ones

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11th March 1973

Life on Mars

David Bowie left his mark on the music industry with his unique take on how he expressed his music on video

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16th January 1975

Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen created a music video that's style had never seen before. To this day it is one of the most popular music videos of all time.

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10th October 1977

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson revolutionised the music video industry. He made his music videos with a story, a beginning middle and end which no one had done before. He still holds the record for the longest music video (Thriller)

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8th March 1980

Madonna

Madonna become a big name in the 80's. Videos such as Vogue and Like A Virgin have almost a cult following. This is when artists starting selling their image through music videos.

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9th March 1982

Karma Chaemelon

Another example of a revolutionising music video

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7th December 1984

Purple Rain

Purple Rain is an example of film effecting a music video. All the songs featured on the film have parts of it in their music video, it is a very good example of synergy

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17th February 1991

Whitney Houston

Though extremely popular during the 80's Whitney really cam into her own due to her songs featuring on the soundtrack of her film The Bodyguard. This starts to show a whole new way music videos can promote a product

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17th July 1993

I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

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14th October 1996

Hit Me Baby One More Time

Britney Spears career was really built on this music video. It has been parodied on numerous occasions.

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23rd October 2000

Eminem

Eminem didn't take himself too seriously and often made parody videos to his own songs.

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13th November 2002

Cry Me A River

Music videos became a platform for artists to show their sides of the story on things that happened in their life.

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12th September 2009

Telephone

Lady Gaga was known for the shock factors in her music videos but this one included many endorsements for other products such as Diet Coke.

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27th August 2010

Baby

This music video broke records for the amount of times it has been watched on YouTube, it held the title of most watched video for many years. It has 1,412,185,149 views.

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14th September 2012

Gangnam Style

This music video went viral and created almost a cult following, it currently has 2,609,643,047 views on YouTube

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26th August 2013

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus really shocked the world with the amount of nudity in her music videos. This shows the start of a time where people watch music videos for the video rather than the song.

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26th June 2014

Anaconda

This starts to mark the era where fans anticipate the music video more than the song. This video was released a day early due to popular demand of Nicki's fan, this shows the audiences ever growing influence over the music video industries.

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Event

Anaconda

26th June 2014

This starts to mark the era where fans anticipate the music video more than the song. This video was released a day early due to popular demand of...

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Event

Miley Cyrus

26th August 2013

Miley Cyrus really shocked the world with the amount of nudity in her music videos. This shows the start of a time where people watch music videos for...

More
Event

Gangnam Style

14th September 2012

This music video went viral and created almost a cult following, it currently has 2,609,643,047 views on YouTube

More
Event

Baby

27th August 2010

This music video broke records for the amount of times it has been watched on YouTube, it held the title of most watched video for many years. It has...

More
Event

Telephone

12th September 2009

Lady Gaga was known for the shock factors in her music videos but this one included many endorsements for other products such as Diet Coke.

More
Event

Cry Me A River

13th November 2002

Music videos became a platform for artists to show their sides of the story on things that happened in their life.

More
Event

Eminem

23rd October 2000

Eminem didn't take himself too seriously and often made parody videos to his own songs.

More
Event

Hit Me Baby One More Time

14th October 1996

Britney Spears career was really built on this music video. It has been parodied on numerous occasions.

More
Event

I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

17th July 1993

Enter story info here

More
Event

Whitney Houston

17th February 1991

Though extremely popular during the 80's Whitney really cam into her own due to her songs featuring on the soundtrack of her film The Bodyguard. This...

More
Event

Purple Rain

7th December 1984

Purple Rain is an example of film effecting a music video. All the songs featured on the film have parts of it in their music video, it is a very good...

More
Event

Karma Chaemelon

9th March 1982

Another example of a revolutionising music video

More
Event

Madonna

8th March 1980

Madonna become a big name in the 80's. Videos such as Vogue and Like A Virgin have almost a cult following. This is when artists starting selling...

More
Event

Michael Jackson

10th October 1977

Michael Jackson revolutionised the music video industry. He made his music videos with a story, a beginning middle and end which no one had done...

More
Event

Bohemian Rhapsody

16th January 1975

Queen created a music video that's style had never seen before. To this day it is one of the most popular music videos of all time.

More
Event

Life on Mars

11th March 1973

David Bowie left his mark on the music industry with his unique take on how he expressed his music on video

More
Event

If I Can Dream

11th August 1968

Elvis Presley made music videos for his later songs but not for his early ones

More
Event

Help!

17th November 1965

The Beatles' second feature Help! was filmed in colour in London and on international locations. The title track sequence, filmed in black-and-white,...

More
Event

A Hard Day's Night

14th November 1964

The Beatles starred in their first feature film A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester. Shot n black-and-white and presented as a mock...

More
Event

Go Now

11th May 1964

In 1964, The Moody Blues producer, Alex Murray, wanted to promote his version of "Go Now". The short film clip he produced and directed to promote the...

More
Event

Top of the Pops

12th January 1964

The show was broadcasted weekly to promote artists. These performances became music videos for numerous songs we still know today

More
Event

Stranger in Paradise

9th February 1956

Tony Bennett believes that he created the first modern music video. He filmed his music video in Hyde Park

More
Event

Visual Jukebox

12th October 1949

A visual jukebox, was invented in France and short films were produced by many French artists, such as Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Jacques...

More
Event

Disney

21st October 1930

Early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated...

More
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