Saturday, February 10, 2007
Where Did the Music Video Come From?
Although the first music video ever broadcasted was Video Killed the Radio Star played by MTV in 1981, some see the music video to be much aged than that year. It looks that the movie Alexanders Nevsky, directed by Sergei Sergei Eisenstein in 1938 had some drawn-out mental images of conflicts which had been choreographed by Sergei Prokofiev. These new scenes were so advanced that they have got lately been considered to be the first music video.
Apparently, the music video is even much aged than these advanced scenes. The 1911 Alexanders Scriabins symphonic music Prometheus: Poem of Fire was written for orchestra and light organ. Oskar Fischingers animated movies were considered to be other ascendants of the music video as they were called visual music and they were equipped with orchestral scores.
Max Fleischers short sketches were also considered to be efforts of a music video. He created a new type of cartoons, the sing-along sketches which he called Screen Songs. These short sketches were inviting the public to sing along to celebrated songs at that time. Few old age later, in the 1930s, these sketches were changed; they displayed the instrumentalists vocalizing their hit songs in presence of the photographic camera in a live-action show.
Walt Walt Disney also contributed to the music video development through his Silly Symphonies which were based on musical pieces. The Charles Dudley Warner Brothers sketches were also created around songs. But the most popular videos were the unrecorded music concerts, performing popular singers, videos which were displayed in theatres.
Bessie Smiths dramatized public presentation of a song was another effort to do a music video. This public presentation consisted in a short movie named Saint Joe Louis Blues. It was very popular and it had been played in theaters for more than than 3 years. She wasnt the lone instrumentalist that appeared in short musical materials. Many instrumentalists liked the thought and started shooting their ain materials. Music historiographer Donald Clarke sees that Joe Louis Jordans unusual characteristic movie Lookout is the functionary ascendant of the music video.
In conclusion, it looks that the first music video issue is still a controversial subject. The of import thing that demands to be noted is that the music video is by far much aged than the telecasting which made it famous: MTV.
