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.
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.
Tony Bennett believes that he created the first modern music video. He filmed his music video in Hyde Park
The show was broadcasted weekly to promote artists. These performances became music videos for numerous songs we still know today
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
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
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.
Elvis Presley made music videos for his later songs but not for his early ones
David Bowie left his mark on the music industry with his unique take on how he expressed his music on video
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.
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)
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.
Another example of a revolutionising music video
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
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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Britney Spears career was really built on this music video. It has been parodied on numerous occasions.
Eminem didn't take himself too seriously and often made parody videos to his own songs.
Music videos became a platform for artists to show their sides of the story on things that happened in their life.
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.
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.
This music video went viral and created almost a cult following, it currently has 2,609,643,047 views on YouTube
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.
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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