1924 – short video animations were made to accompany an orchestral score. Max Fleischer (Popeye, Betty Boop and Superman) began making 'Screen songs', which were a series of sing along animations.
1930 – cartoons would have bands performing their songs in live action sequences during the cartoon.
1940's – The Soundies were being introduced in Chicago. They were the original music videos. Short 3 minute sequences involving dance sequences and other things.
The original Walt Disney films were created around music, and this began to open doors for the link between music and visuals.
Musical films really began to innovate the idea of music videos. Madonna's 'Material Girl' has obvious links to the stage play 'Diamonds are a girls best friend', and the use of dance routines in music videos could have been inspired by the dancing involved in the on stage performances.
1959 – The term 'music video' was first coined by The Big Popper Richardson.
Late 1950's – The Scopitone was introduced. Which was a visual Jukebox.
1960's – began the innovation of music and visuals. After the introducing of the Scopitone in France, other version were patented in other countries.
1964 - The Animals made a promo clip for their hit 'House of the Rising Sun'. The video was in full colour, and featured long shots, mid shots and close ups the band doing a sequence of choreographed moves around a set.
1964 – The Beatles starred in a hit black and white film which included funny dialogue and well thought out musical sequences.
1965 – The Beatles starred in their second feature called 'Help!' The film was in ful colour and had the band go on a musical adventure involving assassins, around London and a number of different locations too
1965 – The Beatles began to make 'film inserts' which were pretty much music videos. This was so they didn't have to make an 'in person' appearances.
You could say that The Beatles were probably the first to start the trend of music promos. At the same time of their production of 'Film Inserts' , The UK band The Byrds began using the same technique.
1967 – promo video clips started to grow in importance. Many film inserts were produced by bands within the UK so that they could be seen on screen and not have to make a live appearance, much like The Beatles.
1966 – The first real 'plot' promo video was made for the Kinks single 'Dead End Street'. Although no lip sync was included, the on screen visuals were made to match some of the key words within the songs lyrics.
During this period, promotional clips began to grow in populraity, with bands like The Who and The Moody Blues making them they soon became very important in the music industry.
1974 – In the UK music videos and music itself began to reign. And the introduction of Top of The Pops really boosted musics popularity with the average person being able to see their favourite artists perform live, although they were miming. The other problem is that BBC had strict rules on the number of ''outsourced' music promos they could use.
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