History of Music Videos

History of Music Videos

• The invention of film and cinema brought about the possibility of combining music and moving images. 
• Advances in technology have turned the music video industry into what it is today but you might be surprised at where it came from. 
• Been around since the 1920s. Musicians such as jazz player Bessie Smith first featured in music videos.
• 1965: Bob Dylan Films Subterranean Homesick Blues as a segment for D.A. Pennebaker's film 'Don't Look Back'. This was widely credited as one of the first modern music videos. This is also used as an intertextual reference regularly.