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With the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced. They featured bands, vocalist, and dancing.
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Bessie Smith, blues singer, featured in a two-reel short music video for her hit song St. Louis Blues. She performed it dramatically.
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The oldest music clip made just for purpose of the song seems to be "Dáme si do bytu." Directed by Ladislav Rychman.
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According to the Internet Accuracy Project, singer J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson was the first to coin the phrase "music video."
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The Beatles starred in their first film "A Hard Day's Night." Shot in black and white it was a mock documentary. It had comedy and dialogue along with musical sequences.
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Michael Jackson's video for the Thriller was realeased on November 30, 1982. It showed the influence of dance sequences from classic Hollywood musicals.
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In 1985, Madonna made a video for her song "material girl.' This video closely modelled Jack Cole's staging of "Diamond's are a girl's best friend."
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In 1992, MTV aired the video for "Video Killed the Radio Star." Beginning an era of 24-hour-a-day music on televsion. Music videos by the late 1800's would begin to play a central role in popular music marketing.
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MTV began listing directors with the artist and song credits.
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In 2006, Ok Go released a music video for there song "Here It Goes Again." This video became well known online.
