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This is old. You can pick up the full video here - http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!steve-jobs-film/c1x1c http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!stev

This is old. You can pick up the full video here - http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!steve-jobs-film/c1x1c http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!steve-jobs-film/c1x... I did a couple years back. It's like $5 & well worth it

muyuu 13y ago
No shit. A 1994 video that's old.
- melling 13y ago
  I think he was referring to old, as in the video has been seen before, and been available to the public for quite some time.
  - muyuu 13y ago
    I think this can be said of basically any old interview of any celebrity.
    - will_work4tears 13y ago
      Yeah, but the title contains "Never Before Seen."
      - muyuu 13y ago
        So the title is pretty obviously wrong. But calling the video old was pretty redundant IMO. Can't quite understand the modbombing but hey.
    - yebyen 13y ago
      OK, so the point was most likely about the specific use of the words 'Never-Before-Seen' in the title. Overreaching?
- joelrunyon 13y ago
  I was referring to the fact that this was posted multiple times around HN after Steve Jobs passed away. It's definitely not "never before seen footage" of SJ.
acqq 13y ago
But here's Amazon review: "I was threatened with legal action and personal attacks via email from the president of the Silicon Valley Historical Association over the above review (which is against not only the 1st Amendment, but also Amazon's policies), and then my review was removed. Therefore I am posting this review again (...) In my opinion, if you are looking for a film about Steve Jobs, this is NOT it. In this hour-long film, there is only 15 minutes and 57 seconds of interview footage of Jobs. The rest is footage of the filmmaker himself, some cheesy stock video clips, interviews with other Silicon Valley founders, and historians/academics talking about the growth of Silicon Valley and comparing it to the Renaissance era and the invention of the Gutenberg printing press. After about 40 minutes into the film, there is hardly any discussion about Jobs at all. There is, however, a nearly 20 minute long segment of various random people explaining why they think the Information Age and Silicon Valley is EXACTLY like the Renaissance period, followed immediately by a clip of Jobs saying, "Nah, it's not like the Renaissance AT ALL." The film is wrapped up quickly with no real conclusion leaving the viewer wondering what the hell they just watched. And to make the whole thing worse, every interview has really annoying music (think screeching saxophones) playing behind it, which becomes so distracting that you stop listening to what the interviewee is even saying. The one good thing I can say is that it is very interesting to hear what Steve Jobs has to say in these interviews...." And it's $15 for video, $5 for audio.
- arh68 13y ago
  > There is, however, a nearly 20 minute long segment of various random people explaining why they think the Information Age and Silicon Valley is EXACTLY like the Renaissance period, followed immediately by a clip of Jobs saying, "Nah, it's not like the Renaissance AT ALL." The computer industry kills art and it sounds like Jobs knew it. What perhaps the others saw as incredible works of art (like sculpted marble that will withstand the centuries) were actually just the most disposable consumer goods we've ever known. Computers are about cheap, disposable crap. For some reason, this also means software needs to be cheap and disposable, but that's another point entirely. The only layers of 'sediment' our creations will be found in are in the landfill. The only 'rare geologists' are likely going to be the picked-the-last-straw developer (or the terminally curious) that has to go knee-deep in the sewers of old code and comes upon a neat hack. This might sound real glass-half-empty, but it doesn't bother me. What's wonderful to know is that everyone else thinks we're all Michelangelos!

muyuu 13y ago

No shit. A 1994 video that's old.

melling 13y ago
I think he was referring to old, as in the video has been seen before, and been available to the public for quite some time.
- muyuu 13y ago
  I think this can be said of basically any old interview of any celebrity.
  - will_work4tears 13y ago
    Yeah, but the title contains "Never Before Seen."
    - muyuu 13y ago
      So the title is pretty obviously wrong. But calling the video old was pretty redundant IMO. Can't quite understand the modbombing but hey.
  - yebyen 13y ago
    OK, so the point was most likely about the specific use of the words 'Never-Before-Seen' in the title. Overreaching?
joelrunyon 13y ago
I was referring to the fact that this was posted multiple times around HN after Steve Jobs passed away. It's definitely not "never before seen footage" of SJ.

acqq 13y ago

But here's Amazon review: "I was threatened with legal action and personal attacks via email from the president of the Silicon Valley Historical Association over the above review (which is against not only the 1st Amendment, but also Amazon's policies), and then my review was removed. Therefore I am posting this review again (...) In my opinion, if you are looking for a film about Steve Jobs, this is NOT it. In this hour-long film, there is only 15 minutes and 57 seconds of interview footage of Jobs. The rest is footage of the filmmaker himself, some cheesy stock video clips, interviews with other Silicon Valley founders, and historians/academics talking about the growth of Silicon Valley and comparing it to the Renaissance era and the invention of the Gutenberg printing press. After about 40 minutes into the film, there is hardly any discussion about Jobs at all. There is, however, a nearly 20 minute long segment of various random people explaining why they think the Information Age and Silicon Valley is EXACTLY like the Renaissance period, followed immediately by a clip of Jobs saying, "Nah, it's not like the Renaissance AT ALL." The film is wrapped up quickly with no real conclusion leaving the viewer wondering what the hell they just watched. And to make the whole thing worse, every interview has really annoying music (think screeching saxophones) playing behind it, which becomes so distracting that you stop listening to what the interviewee is even saying. The one good thing I can say is that it is very interesting to hear what Steve Jobs has to say in these interviews...." And it's $15 for video, $5 for audio.

arh68 13y ago
> There is, however, a nearly 20 minute long segment of various random people explaining why they think the Information Age and Silicon Valley is EXACTLY like the Renaissance period, followed immediately by a clip of Jobs saying, "Nah, it's not like the Renaissance AT ALL." The computer industry kills art and it sounds like Jobs knew it. What perhaps the others saw as incredible works of art (like sculpted marble that will withstand the centuries) were actually just the most disposable consumer goods we've ever known. Computers are about cheap, disposable crap. For some reason, this also means software needs to be cheap and disposable, but that's another point entirely. The only layers of 'sediment' our creations will be found in are in the landfill. The only 'rare geologists' are likely going to be the picked-the-last-straw developer (or the terminally curious) that has to go knee-deep in the sewers of old code and comes upon a neat hack. This might sound real glass-half-empty, but it doesn't bother me. What's wonderful to know is that everyone else thinks we're all Michelangelos!