History music videos

1. Music videos are often called promotion videos or simply promos , due to the fact that they are usually promotional devices. Sometimes, music videos are termed short-form music videos to distinguish them from full length movies pertaining to music. In the 1980s, the term rock video was often used to describe this form of entertainment, although the term has fallen into disuse.

2. The earliest music videos or music promos were filmed in the mid 1950’s, however, before then, as early as the 1920’s, films by animators such as Oskar Fischinger were accompanied by musical scores labeld ‘visual music’.

3. the New Wave era and this enabled many pop acts to produce promotional videos quickly and cheaply, in comparison to the relatively high costs of using film. While others mixed film and video. By the mid-1980s releasing a music video to accompany a new single had become standard, and acts like The Jackson's sought to gain a commercial edge by creating lavish music videos with million dollar budgets; most notable with the video for 'Can You Feel'.

4. August 1, 1981, MTV made the first 24-hour video music channel

5. Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles was the first music video

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6. In 1940 , Walt Disney released Fantasia , an animated film based around famous pieces of classical music