14 DAY TRIAL // Lost footage from a 1995 interview with Steve Jobs and journalist Robert Cringely is set to run at Landmark Theatres in 19 cities on May 11th.
As the story goes, the master tapes containing the interview were lost during shipping. However, a VHS copy of the interview was recently recovered, digitized, ported into an editable format, and ultimately polished up for screening.
The interview features Jobs weighing in on Bill Gates, of whom he said had “no taste,” and former Apple CEO John Sculley, who is known to have single-handedly pushed Apple into bankruptcy before Jobs’ second coming in 1997.
In the interview, which saw a limited theatrical release late last year, Jobs said: “Designing a product is keeping 5,000 things in your brain, these concepts, and fitting them all together in kind of continuing to push to fit them together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new, that is a new problem or a new opportunity, to fit these things together a little differently.”
Comparing Apple to Microsoft, Jobs also said, “The way that we’re gonna ratchet up our species is to take the best and to spread it around everybody so that everybody grows up with better things.”
The film should really strike a cord in those who appreciated Steve Jobs for his urge to make the world a better place for everyone, letting fame and materialism come second.
In 1995, at the time of the interview, Steve Jobs was at a crossroads, according to Magnolia Pictures.
But, as Macnn points out, “Jobs was feeling successful and vindicated -- NeXT had successfully reinvented itself as a software company following its hardware failures, and Pixar Studios' first major release Toy Story had become a massive hit.”
Magnolia Pictures also has plans to make the documentary available on DVD later this year.
