The history of music videos

  • St Louis Blue's-Bessie Smith

    Blue's singer Bessie Smith appeared in a two-reel short film called Saint Louis Blue's. It was shown in theatres until 1932
  • The Beatles-A hard day's night

    the defining work in the development of the modern music video was the Beatles first major motion picture.
  • Bob Dylan-Subterranean Homesick Blues

    This video portrayal of a performance seemingly random inclusion of a celebrity (Allen Ginsberg) in a non performing role also became mainstays of the form
  • Village people-Y.M.C.A

    YMCA made number 1 in the UK charts and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide
  • MTV

    MTV (formerly an initialism of Music Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel which the original purpose of the channel was to play music vide
  • Michael Jackson-Thriller

    The music video has won MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography
  • Daft Punk-Around the world

    “Around the World” is a repetitive song in which the phrase “around the world” is said over and over. But Michel Gondry is always ripe with ideas. He gives each instrument a persona and has its movements intersect with the music by running up, down and around a set of stairs. The video is a great example of Gondry’s ability to look outside the box for inspiration.
  • Youtube

    YouTube is a global video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees.
  • Psy-Gangnam Style

    Psy performing "Gangnam Style" at the Future Music Festival in 2013. "Gangnam Style" has been the most viewed video on YouTube since November 2012, with nearly 2.6 billion views as of June 2016