History or music video

Music video isn’t that new, in fact they’ve been around since before films could have sound. Some performers would project images onto a screen as they played live, these images would then reflect the themes and emotions of the music played. The earliest versions of what we think of as the music video were to come in the 1920s with the Vitaphone shorts and Spooney Melodies. From the 1930s to the early 1960s Musicals were one of the dominant genres in film and many set pieces were extracted to promote the films.

In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song "The Little Lost Child". Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a popular form of entertainment known as the illustrated song, the first step toward music video.

The development of different music videos over the years is mainly due to the new technologies and money which is available. For example, Marilyn Monroe's music video for 'I wanna be loved by you'.

This video is a perfect example of how the new uses of technologies have been used in order to improve the look and success of music videos. In previous years the outcome of music videos havent been as powerful as ones that are more current as they havent got the different services and technologies to impact on the overall outcome of the video.

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