History of music video

Since music and moving images go together the French created a Scopitone the french version of a jukebox which was the first form of music video.
The industry changed when films were made for the band. The history o the modern music video has its rots in the early 1960's with the Beetles first major motion picture, 'A hard Day's Night'. This 1964 Beetles movie included musical segments that resemble todays' music videos. That same year, the band began filming short promotional films for their songs which were then aired on television variety shows. By the time the band stopped touring in 1966, they used the promotional films to tour for them. Soon it was a common place for artists to do this, and bands like The Byrds and the Beach Boys were also filming promotional films. The first music videos of the modern ere were produced by ex- Monkee Michael Nesmith who started making the short musical films for 'Staurday Night Live' in 1979. In 1981, he released 'Elephant Parts',  the first video album and the first winner of a Grammy for music video. a further experiment on NBC television called 'Television Parts' was not successful due to network meddling. New and exciting ways to film a song's story or essence quickly developed so that music starts would stand out. A videos Originality could lead directly to the popularity of a song, but the song always took precedence.