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Edison invents the gramophone in the USA, which shifted from music being solely live to an audiovisual experience to a recorded audio on various forms of discs.
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Fischinger experiments with sound/vision sycnchronisation on film.
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First sound film, which was 'The Jazz Singer'.
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The MGM peak period of the hollywood musical.
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In 1940 Walt Disney released Fantasia an animated film based around famous pieces of classical music.
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Elvis Presley records his first song- "Thats all right" (mama).
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Scopitone was invented in France in 1960
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UK's first music TV Programme - 'Ready Steady Go'
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The beatles release the film and album, A Hard Days NIght (Richard Lester ,UK)
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Top of the Pops Tv Programme begins on the BBC in 1964.
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The Monkees TV Show begins on the NBC in United States of America.
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The Beatles release TV Promos for "Pemnny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever.
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Queen release "Bohemian Rhapsody video" which was directed by Bruce Gowers was aired on aired in 1975.
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Buggles - "Video Killed the Radio Star" video was released in 1979, it was also the first music video played on MTV. The video itself was directed by Russel Mulcahy.
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David Bowie releases "Ashes to Ashes" music video which was directed by David Mallet and David Bowie himself.
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MTV (Music Television) was the phenomenon that gave so much importance and power to the music video of an artist.
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Michael Jackson released his music video 'Thriller', which was directed by John Landis. The'Thriller' video was soon voted the most influetialpop music video of all time.
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MTV Video Music Awards were launched in 1984.
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VH1 began in 1985, it was an american cable television based in New York City.
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Live Aid was a concert that took place in 1985 , the concert was billed as the 'global jukebox' it was held at the Wembley Stadium and was attened by 72,000 people.
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MTV - Europe was launched in 1987, it was broadcasted to 1.6 million homes.
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MTV - Europe acheives 3.5 million subscribers.
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Madonna - Express Yourself wins best director award, as it was dircted by David Fincher.
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MTV - Launches 'The Real World' which was a fly on the wall documentary following the lives of seven people sharing a New York loft.
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REM: Everybody hurts video wins best director award as it was directed by Jake Scott.
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VH1 was launched in the UK in 1994.
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Fatboy Slim - Praise You , video wins best director award as it was directed by Spike Jonze.
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Launch of MTV Dance in 2001.
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YouTube was launched in 2005, it is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.
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ITunes Launched in 2005 which allows people to download music and videos from the internet. There was 1 million downloads after 20 days.
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The Jonny Cash allows audiences to produce amd contribute to the video, which is an example of Web 2.0.
