RESEARCH - History of Music Videos

HISTORY OF MUSIC VIDEO - TIMELINE 

1905 - 1915 = Nickelodeons (movie theatre pay nickel to get in) was the first indoor theatre in 1905-1915. Simple theatres cost five cent for admission. The number of nickelodeons doubled in United States between 1907-1908 to 800 and by 1910, 26 million Americans visited these every week.

1940 - 1946 = Soundies were three-minute musical films, produced in New York between 1940-1946, often including short dance sequence. The films were presented in nightclubs, bars, restaurants, factory lounges and amusements centres. Soundies covered all genres of music and around 1800 mini-musicals were made.

1960s = Scopitone - based on sounds technology developed in WWII. The first scopitone was made in France which later spread to West Germany. It was used in bars and coffee bars in England. By 1964, 500 machines were fixed in the U.S.A. However, by the end of 1960s the polarity of scopitone had faded. The last film for scopitone was made in 1978.

1964 - A Hard Days Night (Beatles) released on the 10th of July 1964, this is the first Beatles album to be recorded on four-tracktype.

20th century = Musicals - Fantasia,Wizard of Oz - since 20th century musical theathre stage works have been called musicals, a form of theatrical performance which included songs, spoken dialogues,  acting and dance. Musicals are often performed by amateur and school groups in churches, schools and other performance space.

1964 - 2006 = Top Of The Pops - also known as TOTP was a british music chart television program, made on BBC and broadcasting weekly between 1 january 1964 and 30 july 2006.

Concert film - a type of documentary film, which is an extended live performance or concert by a musician (more recently by a comedian)

MTV (video killed the radio star-1st video on!) Trever Horn came up with this song after reading a science fiction story about an opera singer who is in a world without no sound. He was fed up working on projects which were always unsuccessful which is why he decided to do something different this time. 'Video killed the radio star', he deliberately chose an awful name to catch his audiences attention as it was all about Punk. The video first aired on MTV and by 1979 it was a very big hit in England.

Youtube is a video-sharing website which was created in California in February 2005 and has been owns by Google since late 2006. People can go n visit the sites to watch any kinds of videos or can even put their own videos up. They have learning, entertainment, actions, comedy and all other kinds of generic videos and it is very easy to use.