Hi Mike, Yes, I was going to ask if you had once been vice president of marketing ;-)
Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 03/05/2012, at 4:51 PM, Mike Murray <mdmur...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Nice one Ronni > > delighted to see my namesake as 'the general' > And the recorder is set for tonight's program about Steve > > Cheers > Mike > > > Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester > TimeTrackers > East Fremantle > Western Australia > > Tel 08 9339 8078 > Fax 08 9339 0519 > Mob 0407 669 376 > > British and Australian genealogical and historical research, > education, publishing and film-making > > www.timetrackers.com.au > > > > On 03/05/2012, at 4:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi People, >> >> Nine Minutes of history... >> >> Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple's long-lost takeoff on famous '1984' >> Macintosh TV commercial >> Nine-minute film called '1944' was produced to inspire Apple sales team to >> take on IBM >> >> <http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80448> >> >> If all you want to see is Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano >> Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - here's that short clip >> before we get to the longer version of the film that it's taken from and an >> explanation: >> >> Entitled "1944," the almost 9-minute full version was Apple's in-house >> takeoff on "1984," the iconicfirst Macintosh TV ad that caused a sensation >> during that year's Super Bowl. Set as a World War II tale of good vs. IBM, >> it is a broadcast-quality production (said to have cost $50,000) that was >> designed to fire up Apple's international sales force at a 1984 meeting in >> Hawaii. A copy of "1944" was provided to me by one-time Apple employee Craig >> Elliott, now CEO of Pertino Networks, a cloud-computing startup located two >> blocks from Apple in Cupertino. >> >> Elliott, who worked at Apple from 1985 to 1996, says he has "never seen (the >> film) anywhere else" and that there has been "no additional circulation" as >> far as he knows. I couldn't find it online, either - the year 1984 was >> pre-World Wide Web, of course -- which doesn't mean it isn't out there. Two >> snippets from "1944," without any dialogue, do appear in another Jobs video >> - a photo-montage tribute to him made by Apple employees to mark his 30th >> birthday. After Jobs died last October, Elliott posted that birthday video >> to his Facebook page, from where it went viral before being knocked off the >> 'Net by Sony Music Entertainment because it used a Bob Dylan song. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
