Music Video Research- The History of Music Videos

Music Video Research- The history of music videos Considered the first step towards music videos, ‘The Little Lost Child’ (1984) by Edward B. Marks and Joe stern, is said to be the first ever ‘illustrated song’. An illustrated song is a slide of images put in with a song, where the images ‘illustrate’ the lyrics, this form of entertainment was popular in 20th Century US. Although not literally considered a music video, it was the first kind of ‘music and imagery’ and evolved to what we know call music videos. Here is ‘The Little Lost Child’ (1894):

  In 1920, Warner Brothers produced the ‘Spooney Melodies’ where animated art was mixed with music. Although not what we would consider a music video today, it is recognised as one of the ‘first music videos’.

 Subterranean Home Sick Blues by Bob Dylan is the first noticed standalone promo clip for music which is more similar to what we know today.