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  1. 1984 (advertisement) " 1984 " is an American television commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas, and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. The ad was a reference to George Orwell 's noted 1949 novel ...

  2. Sep 20, 2024 · It was the nighttime on January 22, 1984. Over 77 million Americans came in front of TV to watch the grand battle between Washington Redskins and Los Angeles Raiders. Suddenly for a full two ...

  3. Jun 25, 2019 · Even though it debuted in the Super Bowl of January 1984, the inception of the “1984commercial goes back to the start of 1983 and this was the time where the battle from computing between Apple and IBM was really heating up. At sales conferences in early 1983, Jobs was already talking about IBM trying to monopolize the computer industry ...

  4. Jan 29, 2020 · Column: Time to remember that there’s been only one great Super Bowl ad--and it aired in 1984. Actress Anya Major in her starring role subverting Big Brother in Ridley Scott’s “1984” ad ...

    • michael.hiltzik@latimes.com
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  5. Aug 13, 2020 · Business Insider. 23. Apple 1984. Dan Bobkoff, Amy Pedulla, and Sarah Wyman. 2020-08-13T01:32:21Z. In the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple ran a commercial that changed the Super Bowl and ...

    • Henry Blodget
  6. Feb 9, 2024 · Apple. By Saul Austerlitz. Published Feb. 9, 2024 Updated Feb. 10, 2024. Four decades ago, the Super Bowl became the Super Bowl. It wasn’t because of anything that happened in the game itself ...

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  8. Scene from Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl advertisement. From Folklore.org. When shown the finished ad in late 1983, Apple’s board members hated it. Sculley, the Apple CEO, instructed Chiat/Day to sell back both the 30 and 60-second time slots they’d purchased from CBS for $1 million, but they were only able to unload the 30 second slot.

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