History of music videos
1941: A new invention hits clubs and bars in the USA. The panoram Soundie is a jukebox that plays short video clips along with the music
1956: Hollywood discovers the genre of music-centered films: A wave of rock'n'roll film begins (rock around the clock, don't knock the rock, shake, rattle and rock)
1960: In France a re-invention of the Soundie, the Scopitone gains limited success.
1962: British Television market adapts the format. Hullabaloo is one of the first US shows of this kind, followed by hinding! (NBC) and American Bandstand.
1970: The record industry discovers these TV shows as a great opportunity to promote their artists. They focus on producing short "Promos", early music videos which started to replace the live performance of the artist on the TV-stage.
1975: Bruce Gowers direct the music video "Bohemian Rhapsody" for Quenn. Today considered as a landmark in music videos as it featured the complete visual grammar of todays music promos.
1981: A spin-of company of the American Express Group starts MTV, an experimental satellite channel broadcasting 24 hours of music videos. The first video played was The Buggles "video killed the radio star". Today the start of MTV is commonly seen as the beginning of the "golden era" of music videos and an unparallelded success story of new art form in popular culture, although many people see it as the death of the true artist, because now in order to be popular you must be phiscally appealing.
1996: Pop-up Video is first aired on VH1.
1997: Music video awards first aired - Hosted by Chris Tucker
1999: 5 largest record companies in the US controlled 84% of the 755 million albums.
February 14, 2005: The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 14, 2005: and the website. Before the launch of YouTube in 2005, there were few easy methods available for ordinary computer users who wanted to post videos online. With its simple interface, YouTube made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to post a video that a worldwide audience could watch within a few minutes.
2006 MySpaceTV (Video): MySpace has been showing videos as early as 2006, but it has changed it name to MySpaceTV for a while.
2007: MySpace introduced MySpaceTV, a service similar to the YouTube video sharing website.
2007: itunes was invented.
2009: MySpaceTV has reverted back to MySpace Video once again.
Your timeline of events shows a good understanding of key events that happened in the music industry. Remember to include your reference
ReplyDeleteAlso did anything else happen between 1996-2005?