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'It's been 25 years, and I still remember the images,' Raybeck said. Hillary Clinton, then vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. And in 2007, the 24-year-old commercial was spoofed in a Web-based attack ad against Sen.

#APPLE MACINTOSH 1984 FACTS MOVIE#

In 1985, founder Steve Jobs left the company after a power struggle with then-CEO John Sculley, kicking off a decade-long absence.Д«ut '1984' was not forgotten: Its production served as the opening scene of The Pirates of Silicon Valley, the 1999 TV movie about Jobs' early years at Apple and his rivalry with Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Nor did it usher in a true explosion of all things Mac. Although it went on to win an impressive handful of advertising awards, the commercial was never broadcast again. 'You make a bold statement about a revolution that you are going to start, and it's one that has resulted in the market share that they now have.'ДЄpple didn't keep pushing the '1984' message. 'It was a major statement at the time, and it's rare that you make a major statement like that and actually deliver on it in a way that we're still talking about 25 years later,' said Ian Schafer, CEO of interactive-ad firm Deep Focus, who says he recalls seeing the Super Bowl airing of the ad as a 9-year-old. And, of course, that was part of what they wanted to get across-that this dark, conforming, restricting environment can be broken through.'

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None of the marvelous graphics the Mac was capable of were in evidence, and what (was) displayed was very dark. '(Apple was) very oblique in the presentation of (its) product,' Raybeck commented.

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Produced by agency Chiat/Day (which, in its current incarnation as part of TBWA, still creates Apple's ads) with a budget of $900,000, it was also one of the most expensive advertisements in television's history.ДЄt the time, Apple was a long shot in the nascent PC market share wars and was far eclipsed by IBM in its 'Big Blue' heyday: the company was taking a staggering gamble with a highbrow, allegory-infused ad that didn't even display the product onscreen. Indeed, they did and in fact, it's become common knowledge that Apple's board of directors came close to canceling the TV spot altogether. They had had some very clever little ads, but they must have bet the house on that one.'

'That was certainly Apple's big debut,' said Douglas Raybeck, a professor emeritus in Hamilton College's anthropology department who has written about the Cold War's role in pop culture and admits to being a decades-long Apple fan. But in the tech world, this was the birth of Apple as we know it-25 years ago this week. For historians, it was a notable moment in Soviet-tinged pop culture. In the entertainment industry, it was the dawn of the cinematic Super Bowl ad. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like 1984.' The science fiction-like display of iconoclasm versus conformity is then explained in a message that appears onscreen: 'On January 24, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. The expressions on the faces in the crowd morph into fascination. She hurls it at the screen, which explodes into a bright white light. Scores of blank-faced people are fixated on a broadcast of a Big Brother figure on a giant television screen, until a woman in bright athletic apparel sprints down a center aisle, wielding a hammer. It began, in a clear nod to George Orwell's novel of the same name, with tense strains of music, the image of figures marching through a tube across a dank industrial complex, and the start of a bizarre monologue: 'Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.'Дirected by Ridley Scott not long after Blade Runner, '1984' aired on January 22, 1984, and its narrative is now geek canon. Super Bowl XVIII's lasting legacy has been a single advertisement sandwiched somewhere in the third quarter: Apple Computer's iconic '1984' commercial. The fact that the Los Angeles Raiders humiliated the Washington Redskins in a 38-to-9 victory is a mere afterthought.

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