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Talkies
Talkies allowed many musical short films to be produced. Vitaphone shorts (warner bros) featured various bands, dancers and vocalists. Sing- along cartoon shorts called screen songs introduced by an animation artist called Max Fleischer. They were made so that the audience felt as though they can sing along to popular songs by following they bouncing ball, like a Karaoke. -
St. Louis Blues
Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a two-reel short film called St, Louis Blues. They featured dramatized performance of that hit song. this was followed up by numerous other musicians at this time. -
Cartoons
During the early 1930's cartoons featured numerous popular musicians performing their hits on camera in live action segments in cartoons. This was also popular in the early animated films (Walt Disney) - Silly symphonies shorts and fantasia. They featured several interpretations of classical music and were built around the music themselves. -
Soundies
Soundies were musical films that included dance numbers similar to later music videos. -
Louis Jordan
In the mid 1940s Louis Jordan mad eshort films to accompany his songs. Some of them were spliced together to create the feature film Lookout Sister. These were often refered to the ancestors of music videos. -
Tony Bennett
He claims to have created the first music video in his autobigrphy. This is because he was filmed walking along the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London 1956. This clip then went on to be set to his song "Stranger in Paradise" -
The Beatles
Hard Day's Night was The Beatles first feature film, directed by Richard Lester. The film was shot in black-and-white and presented as a mock documentary with comentary in-between songs. -
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
This is what is known as the first music video. It was a combination of both live recorded footage and recorded footage. -
Peter Gabrial - Sledge hammer
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MTV
Even though this was not original form of music videos, it was the original platform for them, and based their format around them. Over time it has develop to provide a wider range of topics, such as reality tv and green dramas. -
Michael Jackson - Thriller
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Aha - Take On Me
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Madonna - Like A Prayer
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Madona - Vouge
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Nirvana - Smels Like Teen Spirtit
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Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
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Eminem - My Name Is
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YouTube
The launch of YouTube in 2005 made viewing music videos online easier and faster. This was also similar to the technology used in Google Videos, Yahoo! Videos, Mysace's videos and Facebook. Since then YouTube has developed into a well rounded social networking platform. This is due to its wide range of content. -
Beyonce - Single Ladies
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Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
lady gaga has made a major impact on the music industry as a whole. this is due to a new image compared to other people in the industry at the time. -
Katy Perry - Firework
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Niki Minaj - Anaconda
this was a very contravecial music video that grabbed peoples attention. this was due to it explicit nature. it was -
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
