The accompanying music video for "Remember the Time" was filmed in January 1992 at the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot.
Prior to the release of the video, Jackson's record label promoted it by releasing clips, as well as releasing behind the scenes clips of making the video. The nine-minute video was promoted as a "short film".
It premiered on ABC, NBC and Fox and BET on February 2, 1992. After the video premiered on MTV, the channel aired a "rockumentary" called "More Dangerous Than Ever" which included glimpses of the making of the video. Michael Jackson's record label would NOT release the video's budget figures. Directed by John Singleton and choreographed by Fatima Robinson, the video was an elaborate production and became one of Michael Jackson's longest videos at over nine minutes.
It was set in ancient Egypt and featured groundbreaking visual effects and appearances by Eddie Murphy, Iman, The Pharcyde, Magic Johnson, Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr. and Wylie Draper, who portrayed Michael Jackson as an adult in the made-for-TV movie The Jacksons: An American Dream and died shortly after appearing in this video.
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Never forget when Micheal Jackson decided to do a feature film that show cased the greatness of Black Africans in ancient Egypt, in the 90s!!
This is the most accurate depiction of the Kemetyu Africans ever put in the mainstream media. His fr!ends Steven Spielberg and David Geffen refused to help M!cheal because of this, so he decided to finance the music video himself.