News Summary

• Before YouTube, before streaming, before anyone thought too hard about what to put on a screen while a drunk person sang “Benny and the Jets,” a small army of scrappy filmmakers was quietly getting paid to make weird little movies.
• For about a decade, they existed: thousands of original short films produced specifically for Pioneer LaserKaraoke discs.
• The budgets were modest, to put it generously.
• A typical MTV music video in the late 80s and early 90s cost between $50,000 and $60,000.