Music Video Timeline

1929: Bessie
Smith appeared in
a two reel short
film where she
performed her hit
song.

1980s: artists
started to use
more
sophisticated
effects in their
videos.

1940: Walt Disney

released there first
music video based
around classical
music

1850: music
videos started to
play a big part in
music marketing.

In 1956 Tony
Bennett was
filmed walking
along the
serpentine in
London this was
distributed and
played by u.k
and us TV
stations.

1900s music
videos grew
bigger and
were popular
for there
aesthetic
values.

1960
scopitone a
visual
jukebox was
invented in
France
which then
went on to
produce
many short
music
videos.

2000s: The
business side
of things have
resulted to
females to be
used as a
sexual
attraction to
gain more
publicity.

1970 Bohemian
Rhapsody were
the first to use
music videos for
promotion
purpose.

Modern day:
as music videos
become
evermore
popular less
CDs and videos
are being sold
due to the use
of sites like
YouTube to
access music
videos.