>How do authors regard films such as "Baby Snakes", "200 Motels",
>"Hard Day's Night", "Magical Mystery Tour" as prototypes of the art
>form?  Or, for that matter, has there been discussion of musical
>performances within television programs in the 1970s before MTV (Ed
>Sullivan and Sonny and Cher come to mind -- S&C had some songs set to
>animated pieces, if I recall).
 
I actually use a number of cuts from avant garde films, soundies, tv
appearances by groups, musicals, and films such as HARD DAY'S NIGHT to
illustrate the visual development of music video. Andrew Goodwin disputes
some of these things in his book.
 
BERT
 
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