Ted Owen & Co is the UK-based auction house that obtained this “rare” footage to be auctioned. The tapes are “12 original professionally produced Betacam video tapes of Beyoncé Knowles documenting the earliest music video appearance of Girls Tyme showcasing and starring a then 10 year old Beyoncé.” Ted Owen & Co claims the tapes show “two and a half hours of raw, unedited footage, original footage used to produce Beyoncé’s first music videos” and these are “rare images that have never been seen by public.”
So, how much do I have to save up in order to get in on this? Since these tapes of the Queen of slay date back about 20 years ago and have never been seen, the bidding starts at a big $3.8 million. Just mere pocket change. It’s unknown how the auction house obtained these rare videos of Queen Bey, but the closed auction is taking bids from November 29, 2016 until January 10, 2017.
Take a look at the 2-minute trailer below: