Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of music videos made in the 1960s


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The result was   delete. —  Aitias  // discussion 22:59, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

List of music videos made in the 1960s

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Orphan article since 2006. Contents would be better suited as a category. Also it's debatable whether some of the entries were made as music videos or simply film clips taken from a television performance/movie A-Kartoffel (talk) 01:11, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 03:23, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and the historical idea that music videos were not conceptualized until the 70s. JuJube (talk) 04:48, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment correct, even if this article is saved, the name of it is misleading. The idea of a "music video" as opposed to a television performance or film excerpt didn't appear til the 1970s. The list doesn't appear to make a distinction. A-Kartoffel (talk) 02:16, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, but I wouldn't go anywhere past the 1970s (a similar 1980s or after list would be virtually unmaintainable, unless you possibly go by year and not decade). Otherwise, music videos from the 1960s do exist and can be verified, such as Pink Floyd's Arnold Layne and Point Me at the Sky. MuZemike  ( talk ) 20:15, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete If this were to be sourced, it would become clear that these were not filmed to be "music videos". Since it's not sourced, it appears to be just a list of songs that someone has seen performances of on a tape or a DVD that was compiled later.  The closest thing that I can think of to a "music video" in the 1960s was the musical sequence in each episode of The Monkees.  There was no equivalent of MTV prior to 1981. Mandsford (talk) 01:54, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. I could go either way on this.  Music videos per se did exist in Britain at last a few years before 1981; when MTV started up most of their videos were from British acts; synthpop became popular in the US for the next couple years as a result of this.  But I agree that films of bands performing don't belong here, even if they were later recast as "music videos".  Something like Yellow Submarine, on the other hand, is different. Squidfryerchef (talk) 20:54, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: listcruft, ambiguous entries. JamesBurns (talk) 00:16, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per James Burns. -- MISTER ALCOHOL  TC 03:39, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - spurious list. TheClashFan (talk) 00:31, 3 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.