Tuesday, March 10, 2009

History of Music Videos: Part II 1910s-1950's

Max Fleischer's sing-along short cartoons Screen Songs, invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by "following the bouncing ball".
TWILIGHT ON THE TRAIL (1937)

Walt Disney: Silly Symphonies:
" THE SKELETON DANCE"
Animations were built around music

The Warner Brothers cartoons were made to feature specific songs from upcoming Warner Films. They are today still called Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
LOONEY TUNES: CONGO JAZZ

Another early form of music video were one-song films called "Promotional Clips" made in the 1940s for the Panoram visual jukebox. These were short films of musical selections, usually just a band on a movie-set bandstand, made for playing. Thousands of soundies were made, mostly of jazz musicians, but also of "torch singers," comedians, and dancers (wikipedia: music video).
SOUNDIES CHIQUITA BANANA SONG 1940s

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