.......well it was bound to descend into anarchy but it was saved from it with a clip by genuine anarchists. How ironic!
The Music Video Part 1
In 1894, sheet music publishers Marks and Stern hired electrician George Thomas and 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 entertainment known as the illustrated song was the first step towards music video.
It is not known whether Marks and Stern used a stereopticon. See Post 2586 etc of 'Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge' re the word 'stereopticon'.
In 1926, with the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced. Vitaphone shorts featured many bands, vocalists and dancers. Animation artist Max Fleischer introduced a series of sing-along short cartoons called Screen Songs, which invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by "following the bouncing ball", which is similar to a modern karaoke machine. Early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and Fantasia, which featured interpretations of classical pieces, were built around music. The Warner Brothers cartoons were initially fashioned around specific songs from upcoming films. Live action shorts, featuring such popular performers as Cab Calloway, were also distributed to theatres.
The Nicholas Brothers performed with Cab Calloway. The Nicholas Sisters never did. For background, Post 123 of 'The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread'.
Bessie Smith appeared in a two-reel short film called St. Louis Blues (1929) featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song. Numerous other musicians appeared in short musical subjects during this period. Soundies, produced and released from 1940-1947, were musical films that often included short dance sequences, similar to later music videos. In the mid-1940s, musician Louis Jordan made short films for his songs, some of which were spliced together into a feature film Lookout Sister. These films were, according to music historian Donald Clarke, the "ancestors" of music video. Several well-known music videos have imitated the style of classic Hollywood musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s. One of the best-known examples is Madonna's 1985 video for "Material Girl" which was closely modelled on Jack Cole's staging of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" from the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Several of Michael Jackson's videos show the unmistakable influence of the dance sequences in classic Hollywood musicals, including "Thriller".
The Nicholas Brothers advised Michael Jackson on dance steps. Madonna was a 20th Century pop artist and consequently fits in neatly with this thread.
According to the Internet Accuracy Project, disc jockey–singer "The Big Bopper" was the first to coin the phrase "music video", in 1959. In his autobiography, Tony Bennett claims to have created "...the first music video" when he was filmed walking along the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London in 1956, with the resulting clip being set to his recording of the song "Stranger in Paradise". The clip was sent to UK and US television stations and aired on shows including Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The oldest example of a promotional music video with similarities to more abstract, modern videos seems to be "Dáme si do bytu" ("Let's get to the apartment") created in 1958 and directed by Ladislav Rychman.
Historicky první hudební klip světa, tehdy zvaný filmová a televisní pisnička. Irena Kačírková a Josef Bek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6nSORnS0Jw
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The Music Video Part 1
In 1894, sheet music publishers Marks and Stern hired electrician George Thomas and 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 entertainment known as the illustrated song was the first step towards music video.
It is not known whether Marks and Stern used a stereopticon. See Post 2586 etc of 'Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge' re the word 'stereopticon'.
In 1926, with the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced. Vitaphone shorts featured many bands, vocalists and dancers. Animation artist Max Fleischer introduced a series of sing-along short cartoons called Screen Songs, which invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by "following the bouncing ball", which is similar to a modern karaoke machine. Early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and Fantasia, which featured interpretations of classical pieces, were built around music. The Warner Brothers cartoons were initially fashioned around specific songs from upcoming films. Live action shorts, featuring such popular performers as Cab Calloway, were also distributed to theatres.
The Nicholas Brothers performed with Cab Calloway. The Nicholas Sisters never did. For background, Post 123 of 'The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread'.
Bessie Smith appeared in a two-reel short film called St. Louis Blues (1929) featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song. Numerous other musicians appeared in short musical subjects during this period. Soundies, produced and released from 1940-1947, were musical films that often included short dance sequences, similar to later music videos. In the mid-1940s, musician Louis Jordan made short films for his songs, some of which were spliced together into a feature film Lookout Sister. These films were, according to music historian Donald Clarke, the "ancestors" of music video. Several well-known music videos have imitated the style of classic Hollywood musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s. One of the best-known examples is Madonna's 1985 video for "Material Girl" which was closely modelled on Jack Cole's staging of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" from the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Several of Michael Jackson's videos show the unmistakable influence of the dance sequences in classic Hollywood musicals, including "Thriller".
The Nicholas Brothers advised Michael Jackson on dance steps. Madonna was a 20th Century pop artist and consequently fits in neatly with this thread.
According to the Internet Accuracy Project, disc jockey–singer "The Big Bopper" was the first to coin the phrase "music video", in 1959. In his autobiography, Tony Bennett claims to have created "...the first music video" when he was filmed walking along the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London in 1956, with the resulting clip being set to his recording of the song "Stranger in Paradise". The clip was sent to UK and US television stations and aired on shows including Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The oldest example of a promotional music video with similarities to more abstract, modern videos seems to be "Dáme si do bytu" ("Let's get to the apartment") created in 1958 and directed by Ladislav Rychman.
Historicky první hudební klip světa, tehdy zvaný filmová a televisní pisnička. Irena Kačírková a Josef Bek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6nSORnS0Jw
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