Now that I have roughly covered the origin of the music video I am going to move on to the 1950s and surprisingly to France. This is where there was a creation of a visual jukebox to which french artists made short films.
These are among the artists that made videos to accompany their songs.
Then in 1961 a Canadian show was created that filmed musicians lip synching this was called Singalong. Then in the later part of the 60s the Beatles made a mock documentary film called A Hard Days Night which was directed by Richard Lester.
From this steamed a long line of other artists who started making this kind of film to go along with their songs. Pink Floyd, and the Rolling Stones and also the Kinks started to make films. These where called promotional films or inserts which were often shown when a band couldn’t go to a certain venue there was also at this time a change in the way that people made these films and they started to have plots. The Who in 1964-5 also started to appear in these clips with their various singles.
1972-3 saw the introduction of David Bowie and his music videos these suddenly became more controversial and some of his videos such as John I’m Only Dancing was made on an incredibly cheap budget of $200 but the BBC banned the clip being shown on Top of the Pops.
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