Researching and Planning: Timeline of Music Video History

1900	Edison invents the gramophone in the USA: First shift from music as a solely live and audiovisual experience to recorded audio pm various forms of disc.
1920s	Fischinger experiments with sound/ vision synchronization on film.
1927	First Sound Film The Jazz singer (Alan Crosland USA)
1930s	Creation of first ‘soundies’
1939	Introduction of the Panarom
1940s	Peak Period of MGM Hollywood musical
1954	Elvis Presley records That’s All Right (Mama)
1960	Scopitone introduced in France
1963	UK’S first music T.V programme Ready Steady go (ITV)
1964	Top Of The Pops TV programme begins (BBC) The Beatles release the film and album, A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, UK)
1966	The Monkees’ TV show starts on NBC in the USA
1967	The Beatles release TV promos for Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever
1975	Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (Bruce Gowers)
1977	Saturday Night Fever (John Badman USA)
1979	Buggles: Video Killed The Radio Star (Russell Mulcahy)
1980	David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes (David Mallet and David Bowie)
1981	Pop clips on Nickelodeon MTV starts Duran Duran: Girls on film (Kevin Godley and Lol Creme)
1983	Michael Jackson: Thriller (John Landis) Beginning of Country music television CMT
1984	Music Box starts in Europe MTV video music awards launced
1985	VH1 begins MTV taken over by Viacom Live Aid
1986	Dire Straits: Money for Not (Steve Barron) is top video.
1987	MTV-Europe (MTV-E) launched achieves 3.5m subscribers.
1989	MTV-E reaches 6.7m homes Live broadcast from Moscow Peace Festival Madonna: Express Yourself (David Fincher) wins best director award
1990	Madonna: Vogue (David Fincher) wins best director award. Launch MTV unplugged
1991	Madonna: Justify My Love (Jean Baptiste Mondino)
1992	MTV launches The Real World, a fly-on-the-wall documentary following the lives of seven people sharing a New York Loft.
1993	MTV launches TV series Beavis and Butthead
1994	REM: Everybody Hurts (Jake Scott), wins best director award. Launch of VH1 UK Launch of MTV-Europe Music awards
1997	MTV UK and Ireland launches as a stand-alone channel
1998	Launch of celebrity Deathmatch
1999	Fatboyslim: Praise You (Spike Jonze) wins best director award.
2000	Launch of Jackass
2001	Launch of MTV Dance.