Before Lance Bass prepared for an aborted trip into space, before Joey Fatone became the toast of Broadway and Hollywood in "Rent" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," and before Justin Timberlake became a hot solo artist, they were just three guys part of an aspiring new boy band called 'N Sync.

Now, fans will be able to relive the formative days of the Orlando-based group in a 60-minute video shot and edited by Fatone, 25, and called "The Reel 'N Sync," Reuters reports. The footage will show a time when Bass, Fatone, Timberlake and their two colleagues, JC Chasez and Chris Kirkpatrick, lived and behaved modestly, traveling coach and staying in cheap motels.

"Reel" will be released on DVD and VHS Nov. 5, a spokesman for distributor Trauma Records announced Wednesday. Fatone reportedly assembled the clips for the work from hundreds of hours of footage from his personal video archive.

No 'N Sync songs will be featured in the video, says Reuters, but there's plenty of material on the band's first tours of Europe and Japan in 1996 and 1997, when, as the news service notes, "the only female fans around them were their mothers."

One highlight surely no one will want to miss: seeing all five boys being spray-painted gold for a German photography session marking their first gold record.