The music videos we see on television today seem to be a fairly modern invention, however it all began back in the early 1930's when people would make short films based on music. Many Warner Brothers cartoons were modern interpretations of classical songs which were made around specific songs for new Warner Brothers musical films.
In the 1940's Louis Jordan made short films for his songs which were then spliced together to create a feature film 'Lookout Sister' and these are said to be the ancestors of music videos.
In the 1980's Madonna and Michael Jackson were famed for their use age of music videos as they took inspiration from hit Hollywood films, for example, Madonna's 'Material Girl' which can be linked to 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend' from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, staring Marilyn Monroe.
As music videos became seemingly popular, music TV channels were created and in Britain in the 1970's, The Top of The Pops was born. In the 1980's - 1990's music videos became mainstream and the U.S had made a 24 hour music channel featuring the likes of Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants, Madonna and Queen.
In the past 10-15 years the Internet has become 'video friendly' and this has caused more artists to produce videos for their songs. This means more directors are needed and so the careers of people such as Mark Romanek and Spike Jonze were born.
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