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Evolution of the Music Video

  • The Little Lost Child

    The Little Lost Child
    The Little Lost Child is considered to be the origins of the 'music video'
  • Kinetophone

    Kinetophone
    The Kinetophone was an early attempt to create a sound-film system.
  • Bouncing Ball effect

    Bouncing Ball effect
    The bouncing ball effect was created for musicial cinema for viewers to follow the song and rythem.
  • Vitaphone

    Vitaphone
    The Vitaphone was a sound film system, built upon the original Kinetophone system and was used for feature films and short films.
  • The Jazz Singer Musical

    The Jazz Singer Musical
    The first film (musicial) with synchronized dialogue sequences. Most films were silent films before hand.
  • The Andrews Sisters

    The Andrews Sisters
    Video link The Andrews Sisters produced a live recorded video of them singing - "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" during WWII and was a major hit!
  • Soundies

    Soundies
    Example Video Soundies were 3 minute musical short films between the years of 1941 and 1946 normally including short dance sequences.
  • Jail House Rock

    Jail House Rock
    A muscial film released to conicide with song release
  • The Beatles

    The Beatles
    The Beatles produced music videos to export to America to gather fans and an audicance across the seas.
  • Top of the Pops

    Top of the Pops
    A UK tv series showcasing music at the top of the UK charts on the BBC.
  • Countdown (AU)

    Countdown (AU)
    An Australian TV series, broadcasting teenage pop music on ABC AU.
  • MTV

    MTV
    MTV (Music Television) was launched and broadcasts live music with music videos on TV.
  • Thriller

    Thriller
    [Video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA) Thriller was a different style of music video with a short film style and a plot.
  • MTV Music Awards

    MTV Music Awards
    Website Directors are created for music videos for the first time as a standard
  • P2P

    P2P
    Peer to Peer file sharing via the internet. Music can be easily shared and sent accross PC's via the internet, this started the craze of music priacy and artists started to loose sales, but not as much until after 2000 as the tech was new to the general public
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    Website Easily accessable video streaming online created by three former Paypal employees in 2005 and is now currently owned by Google since 2006.
  • The Johnny Cash Project

    The Johnny Cash Project
    Website The project is a crowd-sourced music video project honoring the legacy of Johnny Cash.