1989 MTV cartoon short "Disco Zombies" Stevie & Zoya

Animated MTV bumper featuring a Stevie Washington Angry Youth cartoon short, "Stevie & Zoya VS Disco Zombies."

The BetaGems channel also has "1989 Late Night MTV commercial, Post Modern, Remote Control," "1989 MTV bumpers, VJs, Win Bon Jovi's House, Ken Ober short," "1989 MTV Museum of Unnatural History Mall Tour TV ad," "MTV 1987 ad No more heavy metal! popular demand," "1987 1st MTV ad for Remote Control with Ken Ober," "Rocket From the Crypt shows you around San Diego March 1994," "1985 animated MTV promo bumper underground art," "1989 Anthrax & Headbanger's Ball Tour Schwag TV ad," "Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper Are You Alive?! 1987 network promo," "3-18-89 Spring Break John Stamos hosts Penthouse Pet bikini contest," "3-18-89 Spring Break dancing, Ami Dolenz, bikini contest," "The Fixx 3-19-89 Spring Break television performance," "Cheap Trick 3-19-89 Spring Break television performance," "Vixen 3-19-89 daytime TV performance, Daytona Beach," "Was (Not Was) 3-18-89 daytime TV performance, Daytona Beach," "Information Society 3-18-89 daytime TV performance, Daytona Beach," "Richard Marx 3-18-88 Daytona Beach spring break," "Spring Break 1994 Flintstones Dancers," "PM Dawn, LA Guns live 3-21-92 spring break," "Lenny Kravitz performs in a loincloth March 1992 spring break," "Aimee Mann & Til Tuesday 3-27-87 Daytona Beach FL 7 songs," "KBC Band (Kantner Balin Casady) 3-27-87 Daytona Beach FL 4 songs," "Primus 3-21-92 Daytona Beach FL w/Ugly Kid Joe," "Samantha Fox 3-18-89 Daytona Beach FL TV performance," "Marky Mark 3-21-92 Daytona Beach FL w/L.A. Guns," and "Right Said Fred 3-21-92 Daytona Beach FL w/Brand New Heavies."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from the early 1980s into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online.

Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area. This upload features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners. To be used for research and archive purposes only, no commercial reproduction allowed.