History of Music Videos

The “first” music video is filmed at Thomas Edison’s studio

Jan 1, 1895

First ever 'Music Video' This video was a test for Edisons Kinetophone project and was the first ever attempt recordind sound and movement.

1920s: Sound-on-film ushers in the era of musical shorts

Apr 20, 1920

In April 1923, New York City’s Rivoli Theater presented the first motion pictures with sound-on-film, a system that synchronized movies and their soundtracks.

1940-1946: Soundies put coins in jukeboxes across the United States

Jun 20, 1940

Direct precursors to the music video, soundies were three-minute films featuring music and dance performances, designed to display on jukebox-like projection machines in bars, restaurants and other public spaces. Many of the era’s greatest talents, from jazz singers and swing dancers to chamber musicians and comedians, appeared in them. Another type of visual jukebox, known as the Scopitone, originated in France in the late 1950s and enjoyed some brief success in Europe and the United States.

'Musical shorts'

Jun 20, 1950

Later, during the 1950s, musical shorts made a comeback as filler footage between television movies, which were not yet edited to fit into time slots.

Earliest know Rock Video's

Jun 20, 1958

Chantilly Lace
The “Chantilly Lace” singer is also credited with making some of the earliest known rock videos in 1958.

1959- 'The Big Bopper'

Jun 20, 1959

According to some music historians, singer and songwriter Jiles Perry Richardson, who went by The Big Bopper, became the first person to use the phrase “music video” in a 1959 interview with a British magazine

Elvis Presely

Jun 20, 1959

Jail house rock- 1959

Television

Jun 20, 1960

First ever Top Of The Pops
It was television, of course, that truly embraced the music video. In the mid-1960s, the UK’s famous Top of the Pops was opened.

The Beatles

Jun 20, 1966

[Paperback Writer- The Beatles](http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UpPOpq3Ck8)
The Beatles were the pioneers of marrying the two ideas into the concept we now know as the music video – a short, stand-alone film of a musical act presenting a current song that may or not be a live performance.

Video Killed the Radio Star

Jun 20, 1981

Video Killed the Radio Star
Richard Mulchay created the video for The Buggles’ Video Killed The Radio Star

MTV- The Buggles

Aug 1, 1981

MTV’s debut on August 1, 1981, when the pioneering channel fittingly and famously aired The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”

First Music Video with openind and closing 'sequence'

Jun 20, 1982

Thriller!!

Youtube

Jun 20, 2005

Youtube was created in 2005 as a way of sharing video's and is now the most popular way of watching music videos.
YouTube is now the first port of call for anybody searching for their favourite artist’s latest video.