Steve Jobs 'lost interview' to screen in Houston

HOUSTON –– Steve Jobs has one last thing.

A new 70-minute film, “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview”, will debut this month in 19 cities for a limited theatrical run and features an unedited interview with the Apple co-founder that had previously only existed in a severely truncated form.

The movie will play two nights, Nov. 16 and 17, at the River Oaks Theatre at 2009 W. Gray Street.

Robert Cringely made "Triumph of the Nerds," a PBS miniseries, in 1995 about the founding of the personal computer industry. A highlight of the show was Cringely’s interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in which he sorely criticized Microsoft for having “no taste”, no “culture” and “third-rate” products. The interview also delves into Jobs' first glimps at a graphical user interface at a nearby Xerox research lab that formed the basis for all personal computing from there on out.

"The way that we're gonna ratchet up our species is to take the best and to spread it around to everybody so that everybody grows up with better things,” Jobs says in the film.



Jobs left Apple in 1985, founded NeXT Computer and bought the fledgling digital film company Pixar from George Lucas (and subsequently helped churn out blockbusters like "Toy Story") before returning to Apple in 1997 as the company was breathing its dying breath.



That candid, controversial, and funny interview in 1995 with an old associate (Cringely had worked for Jobs at one time) was by far the best TV interview Jobs ever gave. Yet less than 10 minutes were used in the series and the other 59 minutes were lost forever when the master tapes disappeared in shipping.

An unedited copy of the entire Jobs interview was discovered recently in London. Restored and improved from its VHS source tape the footage is completely original and unedited.

Jobs is the design icon and cranky genius who grew Apple 100-fold into the most valuable company in America by revolutionizing the personal computer, music industry, cell phone industry, digital film industry and helped to create a successful tablet computer industry. He died Oct. 5 at his Palo Alto, Calif. home at age 56 and was worth $7 billion.

For a clip from previously-aired footage of the 1995 interview, click on the link below.