The early era of music videos began in 1965 when music was first merged with film. This was pioneered by George Thomas who synchronized a live music performance with projected images. The Jazz Singer in 1927 was a breakthrough as the first film with both audio and images, allowing performances to be recorded rather than just live. In the 1950s and 1960s, new technologies like Scopitone and jukeboxes made it possible to watch and listen to music videos more widely. Television's first music video was produced in the 1950s as a collection of musical shorts. In the 1970s, the music video further grew as a medium with the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" being the first broadcast on TV, and MTV was
2. Early Era
• The early era is also known as the silent era.
• The early era began in 1965 when music merged with film for the first time.
• George Thomas synchronized a live performance with a magic lantern that would show
projected images
• This performance had become very popular amongst the people, and whoever got the chance
to see it was blown away. The quality of glass played photography is even today far beyond
any digital projection method available today.
3. The Jazz singer 1927
• After the silent era the jazz singer became very popular. It was
the first film to have both audio and image. This was the first
time a performance didn’t have to be live.
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4. Scopitone (1950)
• Scopitone made it easier in the late 1950’s to
watch and listen to music video’s. Then in the
late 1960’s came juke boxes which became
very popular and were found in all the popular
places such as nightclubs around the world.
5. Snader Telescription
• This was television’s very first video produced
around 1950s.It was a collection of musical
short films featuring jazz and pop music.
• It was produced by Lionel Hampton.
6. Beatles
1. In the 1970’s it was the year of Pop music and Beatles
become widely popular.
2. The first music video broadcasted on tv was “we can work it
out” by the Beatles.
3. During these years the film industry grew and film
technology got cheaper.
7. MTV (1891)
• Mtv became a widely popular TV channel featuring
music videos in 1891.
• The most popular music video that was featured on
the channel was ‘video the radio star’ went
extremely popular.
• Mtv became the platform for music videos.
8. YouTube 2005
• YouTube brought a huge change to the music industry.
• with the rise of you tube music videos were uploaded over
the internet.
• YouTube was an online platform for anyone to upload their
work and become popular .
• Music was easily and freely available, consumers no longer
needed to rely on cd’s .
