History of Music Videos
Perhaps one of the first music videos to be shown was in 1929 and a was for the song "St Louis Blues", a song that featured singer Bessie Smith. The video, or as it would be known now, short film was heavily dramatised and an impressive 15 minutes long. The video was that popular that it was shown in cinemas till 1932.
Perhaps the next big step in terms of music videos came in the 1940s in the form of Disney's fantasia. Disney's fantasia was a blend of animation and classical music, it features 13 songs but perhaps the most remembered and loved was "the sorcerer's apprentice".
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The first ever official music video was created by Tony Bennett
During the 1970, rock band "Queen, took music videos into a whole new era with the introduction of the music video for "Bohemian Rhapsody", the video was made to appear on the British TV show "top of the pops"and was considered to be a performance as apposed to a story, each weekly episode of the TV show "top of the pops" consisted of performances from some of the top selling artists of that week as well as a rundown of that weeks singles chart.
1981 saw the introduction of the first ever 24 hour music video channel "MTV". this made it even easier to access the newest and most popular music videos with the help of the shows presenters, other wise known as video jockeys (VJs). the first ever music video to be shown was "video killed the radio star" by The Buggles.
1982 saw the release of the ground breaking music video for Micheal Jackson "Thriller", the original video as 13 minutes long and considered to be a short film. the video was extremely popular and is considered to be the best music video of that time.
1985 saw the production of dire straits video for "money for nothing" which was one of the first music videos to use computer animated human characters.
1986 saw the creation of Peter Gabriel's "sledgehammer" video with was the first videos to use stop motion all the way through .
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In 1985 the music video for take on me was released and it was one of the first music videos to be mostley made of rotoscoping.
controversy
When looking at modern music we see a clear difference in the music videos that are being made by female artists in recent yeas in comparison to the 1920s. In more modern music videos we see more woman artists sexualising themselves, due to this more and more music videos are being banned, however some producers will set out with the intent for this to happen as to draw more attention to the artist and possible gain more views. Examples of this are, Rihanna 's&m' and Christina Aguilar's 'Dirty'