1984 television commercial - Creation

The 60-second film was created by the advertising agency Chiat/Day, whose creative director Lee Clow was responsible for this and the later Energizer Bunny and Taco Bell chihuahua campaigns, with copy written by Steve Hayden and directed by Ridley Scott (who had just finished filming Blade Runner). It was shown to a large audience for the first time in October 1983, at Apple's annual sales conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Based on their initial reaction, Apple executives booked two slots during the upcoming Super Bowl. Ho ...

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Edgar Froese arrived in West Berlin in the mid-1960s to study art. He worked as a sculptor and studied under Salvador Dalí, among others. His first band, the R&B-styled The Ones, was gradually dismantled after releasing only one single, and Froese turned to experimentation, playing minor gigs with a variety of musicians. Most of these gigs were in the famous Zodiac nightclub, although Froese's band was also invited to play for his former teacher Dalí. Music was mixed with literature, painting, early forms of multimedia, and more ...

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Yantai (Simplified: 烟台; Traditional: 煙台; Hanyu Pinyin: Yāntái) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea and the eastern coast of the Bohai Bay, Yantai borders the cities of Qingdao and Weihai to the southwest and east respectively. The largest fishing seaport in Shandong and a robust economic center today, Yantai used to be known to the West as Chefoo, a misnomer which refers, in Chinese, solely to Zhifu Isla ...

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Even though it is not in quotes in the commercial, the announcer pronounces "Macintosh" as if it was. Today, of course, he would say "the macintosh". At the time, such grammatical rules had yet to be ironed out by Apple. Some sources quote the Big Brother dialogue as having an expanded introduction and other slight word changes. The alternate dialogue is listed below; however, the bolded text did not appear in the January 1984 version of the ad. "My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. ...

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The heroine wears orange shorts, red running shoes, a white tank top with a Picasso-style picture of Apple's Macintosh computer, and a white sweat band on her left wrist and a red one on her right. She is carrying a large sledgehammer and running quickly through a dystopian, industrial scene chased by four security guards. The guards wear black, paramilitary uniforms and helmets with visors covering their faces. They are armed with large night sticks. She is running towards a large hall filled with people with shaved heads, sitting on benches facing a large video screen. All the audience members appea ...

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