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The Jazz Singer
This film was the first movie with talking and, being a musical, the first person singning at a camera that was publicized on such a mass scale. The film was very popular in the U.S., and became a must see. -
The Gold Diggers of 1933
This was the first musical film to display choreography while a song was being played. With many dancers across the screen, it was much more than just a singer looking at the camera. -
Fantasia (Disney)
This could be classed as the first music video, with the animation made by Walt Disney to support the classical piece behind it. It uses concepts we are familiar with today, such as bigger things happening in the rise of volume. Despite this, Walts' aim was to re-intorduce the classic genre of music this way, but failed to do so successfully witht his idea. -
Singin' in the Rain
This was at the time of musicals' peak, and is regarded as one of the most iconic musicals to date. At this time, stars were being made out of musicals, such as Gene Kelly, who could sing and dance to choreography. -
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Top of the Pops
A show put on by the BBC in order to showcase the leading music acts, and to show who was number 1 in the charts. If the act was not able to perfrom live for the audience, then the show would show the artists' music video, (helping promote the artist either way). However, the show stopped running after is became more difficult to track the charts with the introduction of YouTube and other music streaming websites emerging. -
The Beatles
The Beatles saw and used music videos to promote themselves by hireing film directors to help do so. This was the beginning of music videos helping to promote artists. -
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsidy
One of the most significant music videos, and shows Queen being visual artists as well as musical artists. It broke the convential length of a music video, being almost 6 minutes. It had a unique style of video that is often seen as the most well known Queen song for it's shot of the 4 members at the time. -
MTV
The first television channel that showed music videos constantly. Beforehand, Channel 4 occasionally showed them; not on a scale of MTV. It gave artists more of an incentive into making quality music videos with thought and well designed choreography to promote themselves. -
Michael Jackson - Thriller
One of the longest and also an iconic music video being 14 minutes in full length. The song was only 4 minutes roughly, but had a narrative, which was unconventional for the time. This is the music video that set that option up to others, though few have done it to such a scale. -
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
This video used a stop animation for the video, and edited many things in doing so. It gave the artist a very creative feel, and was the first of it's time. -
Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Gave the song for the rock 'n roll band a meaning with the video, signifying the problems with the U.S., but also had a strong focus on the band and their iconic harido. -
Madonna - Like A Prayer
A very controversial video, espcially for the south of America. It contained Christian references, such as person who appeared to be Jesus come to life and start making out with the singer. It also had burning crosses, which was a reference to the Ku Klux Klan, (KKK), a Christian group against blacks. -
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Spears first album, and one of the most iconic. Looking at the camera for most of the video, it became the way the famous pop singer was known and many more after her. It was also one of the last videos on MTV while the channel was still purely a music video channel before branching off into other areas.
