A brief history of music videos

1895: The “first” music video is filmed at Thomas Edison’s studio

1920s: Sound-on-film ushers in the era of musical shorts

1925: Audiences learn how to follow the bouncing ball

A bouncing ball over song lyrics on TV shows to encourage the audience to sing

1940-1946: Soundies put coins in jukeboxes across the United States

(soundies were three-minute films featuring music and dance performances, designed to display on jukebox-like projection machines)

1959: The Big Bopper coins the term “music video”

(Jiles Perry Richardson, who went by The Big Bopper, became the first person to use the phrase “music video” in a 1959 interview with a British magazine.)

1960s: The Beatles marry movies and music

1974: Australia paves the way with “Countdown” and “Sounds”

(Two weekly teen-oriented music programs premiered in Australia in 1974. Both prominently featured music videos, some of which were created especially for the shows.)

This page displays the history of music videos and also labels of the music industry. I constructed this page to have more general knowledge of music videos and the industry as a whole before making the music video. This research was helpful when looking for inspiration for the music videos, and how they have previously been constructed and who by.