'A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music/song.'
When sound films and talkies arrived in 1926, many musical short films were produced.
Warner Bros produced Vitaphone shorts (1926–30) these featured bands, vocalists and dancers.
The series entitled spooney melodies was the first true musical video series. The short filsm were normally about six minutes long, and featured art deco style animations and backgrounds along with film of the performer singing the song.
This series of shorts can arguably be considered to be the earliest music videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4hnwt8jdU - This is Spooney Melodies: Crying for the Carolines (1929) one of the first 'music videos' ever.
It is very old fashioned, the pictures are slow and obviously back and white, and there are shots of the man singing. it is very simple and plain and shows the lack of technology!
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