Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Believe it or not, music videos were a thing long before MTV debuted their 24-hour all-music video channel in 1981. Of course, there were promotional films of musicians, music sequences in movies, and television performances. But there was also the Scopitone, a juke box that played films of song performances, which flourished in the 1960s.
One of the draws of the Scopitone videos were that they didn’t adhere to the family viewing standards of television. But it wasn’t the first visual jukebox. The linked article features a wonderful half…The post There’s an Alternate Universe of Pre-MTV Music Videos You’ve Never Seen appeared first on FeedBox.