* 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, " Video Killed the Radio Star " by the Buggles.

The video, directed by Jake Nava, begins zooming into a seemingly glass pyramid where the four girls are dancing on a square platform in a circle.

* August 31 – Canadian music video channel MuchMusic begins broadcasting.

* January 1-The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting on American cable.

** Tupac Shakur begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.

The story begins in a Domepolis in Siberia, where championship video game player Gainer Sanga is arrested by Siberian Railroad policewoman Adette Kistler on suspicion of being an Exodus member.

The music video, directed by Peter Rosenthal, begins with Madonna entering a park.

Since April 15, 2008, pay-per-view movies on cable and satellite television have been flagged so that recordings cannot stay on digital video recorders or other related devices sold or leased to you from your cable or satellite provider for more than 24 hours after the movie begins.

* Youtube video ( Csárdás begins @ 2: 35 )

* The video game Earthsiege 2 begins in the year 2624, with the Earth having been in a major global war against a self-controlled AI called " Prometheus ".

As the video to Shaggy and Ali G's hit single " Me Julie " begins, there is a reference to the Crooked Billet pub, which is just off of the Uxbridge Road A4020 on the Five Points Roundabout.

PRISM surreptitiously begins recording the senator's abuse via an audio / video link.

* Historic film footage of buildings along The Bund in year 1928 ( begins at 0: 40 in linked video clip ).

The film begins with a video presentation of a top-secret project called " Crossbow ": a high tech space shuttle mounted with a computer-guided laser weapon that is shown to incinerate a man on the ground with pinpoint accuracy.

In filmmaking and video production, pre-production formally begins once a project has been greenlit.

* A major shakeout of the video game industry begins.

Part 2 of the video begins with Phil Kerr and Sol Hoʻopiʻi testifying about Hoʻopiʻi's Christian conversion, and contains a rare moment of Hoʻopiʻi doing a falsetto rendition of Kerr's composition I'm in Love with the Lover of my Soul.

The video begins with a brief sequence inside a dark room where water drips from an open window.

* The music video for Billy Joel's song, " Tell Her About It ", which puts Joel on the stage of The Ed Sullivan Show, begins with Sullivan saying, " Thank you, Topo Gigio.

Bhimsen Joshi was widely recognized in India due to his performance in the Mile Sur Mera Tumhara music video ( 1988 ), which begins with him.

As Echoes of Honor begins, assuming Harrington was also killed on Hades, the PRH propaganda office releases a fake video recording of her " execution ".

The video begins with shots of a peaceful but vacant village, overgrown with weeds, with the enormous concrete sarcophagus of a covered-over nuclear reactor in the background.

There are only two cut scenes, one that begins the game and one that concludes the game, and an introductory video.

Famous passage begins at 11: 10 into this video.

Though a normal pre-adolescent boy in most aspects, Daryl begins to exhibit extraordinary talents after he goes to live with foster parents Joyce ( Mary Beth Hurt ) and Andy Richardson ( Michael McKean ), including uncanny abilities at baseball, the ability to manipulate bank funds by interfacing with an ATM, and in playing video games.

This Einstein android, also called " Albert Hubo ", thus represents the first full-body walking android in history ( see video at

In the video game Assassin's Creed II, Minerva appears in an ancient vault underneath the Vatican at the end of the game.

CPU runs at 2 MHz when accessing ROM and 1 MHz or 0. 5897 MHz ( depending on graphics mode ) when accessing RAM due to sharing memory access with the video display circuits.

All units ran much faster than the original TRS-80, at 4 MHz, ( with a software selectable throttle to the original speed for compatibility purposes ) and the display supported upper and lower case, hardware snow suppression ( video ram bus arbitration logic ), and an improved character font set.

When analog television was developed, no affordable technology for storing any video signals existed ; the luminance signal has to be generated and transmitted at the same time at which it is displayed on the CRT.

In practice a technique called vestigial sideband is used to reduce the channel spacing, which would be at least twice the video bandwidth if pure AM was used.

At this point the IF signal consists of a video carrier wave at one frequency and the sound carrier at a fixed offset.

A demodulator recovers the video signal and sound as an FM signal at the offset frequency ( this is known as intercarrier sound ).

An early video showing some activities in a conservation-restoration laboratory at the Rijksmuseum

However, its release was cancelled at the last moment at the demand of Judge, who owned approval rights for video releases of the series.

Famous video footage of the ' battle of Boet Erasmus Stadium ' shows JPR Williams running over half of the pitch and launching himself at van Heerden after such a call.

The single was accompanied by a promotional video directed by Bernard Rose, showing Somerville eagerly trying to make friends at a swimming pool, then being attacked by an anti-homosexual gang, being returned to his family by the police and having to leave home.

Harold and Maude ( 1971 ) was not successful financially at the time of its original release, but has since earned a cult following and has become successful following its video and DVD releases.

MGM noticed the video was performing well since " trendy twenty-somethings were throwing Showgirls irony parties, laughing sardonically at the implausibly poor screenplay and shrieking with horror at the aerobic sexual encounters.

* Walk through video of the Colossus rebuild at Bletchley Park

* Famous video of " rods " at the Cave of the Swallows

Nereus spent over 10 hours at the bottom of the Challenger Deep and measured a depth of at, while sending live video and data back to its mothership RV Kilo Moana at the surface and collecting geological and biological samples from the Challenger Deep bottom with its manipulator arm for further scientific analysis.

The video camera on board the Kaiko probe spotted a sea cucumber, a scale worm and a shrimp at the bottom.

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).