History of the Music video, timeline
1894-First example of an 'illustarted song' featured still images being projected onto a screen through a live performance of Little Lost Child.
1930-'screen songs' introduced which were sing-along cartoon films.
1956- Rise of television coincided with the rise of popular music and the new format gave musicians a new way to publicise themselves.
1964- The Beatles set the bar for the modern music video with Motion Picture A Hard Days Night
1965-Bob Dylan releases the music video for Subterranean Homesick Blues which is known as one of the first modern music videos.
1965- The Beatles release ten promotional videos for their music.
1981- MTV launched, the music channel centres around music videos which have now become a huge way of marketing music.
1983- The hugely famous and inspirational music video, Thriller is released.
1995- Scream, a music video for The Jackson's is released, costing seven million to produce it is one of the most expensive music videos ever.
2005- Youtube and Itunes open, giving music videos a new way to be mass consumed.
2010- The amount of music videos watched online reaches 34billion.
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