{"id":7867,"date":"2010-02-25T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2010-10-26T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T20:16:35","slug":"steve-jobs-and-john-lasseter-discuss-pixar-in-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/02\/25\/steve-jobs-and-john-lasseter-discuss-pixar-in-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs and John Lasseter discuss Pixar in 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7868\" title=\"Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Steve-Jobs-and-John-Lasseter-in-1996.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in October 1996 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Jobs\"><strong>Steve Jobs<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005124\/\"><strong>John Lasseter<\/strong><\/a> went on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\">The Charlie Rose Show<\/a> to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pixar\">Pixar<\/a> and the future of animated film.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit of background: Jobs bought the animation division of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucasfilm\">ILM<\/a> from George Lucas in 1986, renamed it Pixar and in 1995 their first feature length movie Toy Story began an incredible run of acclaimed animated blockbusters; Lasseter was the creative chief who directed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Bug%27s_Life\">A Bug\u2019s Life<\/a> (1998),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toy_Story_2\">Toy Story 2<\/a> (1999) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cars_(film)\">Cars<\/a> (2006) whilst also serving as executive producer on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monsters,_Inc.\">Monsters, Inc.<\/a> (2001),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Finding_Nemo\">Finding Nemo<\/a>(2003) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317705\/\">The <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317705\/\">Incredibles<\/a> (2004),\u00a0<a title=\"Ratatouille (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ratatouille_(film)\">Ratatouille<\/a> (2007) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WALL-E\">WALL-E<\/a> (2008).<\/p>\n<p>The interview is fascinating in retrospect because it was only a few months before Jobs returned to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_Inc.\">Apple<\/a> (the computer company he had co-founded in 1976) and began the great renaissance that gave the world the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMac\">iMac<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPod\">iPod<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPhone\">iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just a decade after the following interview was recorded, Pixar was bought by Disney in early 2006 for $7.4 billion &#8211; Jobs became the largest individual shareholder and Lasseter was appointed Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Feature Animation.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it in full below:<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 480px; height: 391px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?showShareButtons=true&amp;docId=4952557933657865919%3A1000%3A1379000&amp;hl=en\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed style=\"width: 480px; height: 391px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?showShareButtons=true&amp;docId=4952557933657865919%3A1000%3A1379000&amp;hl=en\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Rose interviewing Steve Jobs and John Lasseter back in October 1996 about Pixar and the future of animated film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,16],"tags":[796,323,1314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}