The history of the music video

During a lesson in class we watched a docummentary 'The history of the music video'. The docummentary showed the devlopment of the music video over the years from when they were first discovered to just recently. The docummentary proved that a lot has changed since the early days of when they were first producded.

1920's- talkies were invented, the first version of the music video. (videos without sound, only images). 

1950's music videos were produced with colour, the inspiration taken from colour musicals.
1955- creation of the ''teenager'' (Elvis Presley)


1960s-The Beatles ''Hard Day's Night''

1967- Music starts appearing on TV. (Variety Show).
1979- Pop Clips(TV programme) showing music clips.
1980s-Mike Nesbitt (The Monkeys) starts collecting videos, because otherwise they just vanish. Then came up with the idea of MTV.

1981-MTV appeared.

1st music video- ''Video Killed The Radio Star'', ironic isn't it?


Music videos first appeared on the television in 1967. MTV was launched as a music channel, however they had a very limitted amount of videos,only 200 which would not have been enough to make a channel. Artisits used MTV to promote their videos for example The Beatles have utilized music vidoes to promotes their records starting in the mid 60's.  The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of "Can't Buy Me Love", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for "basically inventing" the music video.


1985-Music videos become available in shops.
Early 90s MTV started diversifying into a youth program, including programmes such as:

 Beavis and Butthead, JackAss and other reality TV shows, such as The Osbornes.

2001- MTV Dance was introduced.

Today music channels are devided into specific genres.