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Mac founding-fathers appear at Welcome to Macintosh screening

by Christina Warren (RSS feed) on Jan 11th, 2009

This year at Macworld 2009, two documentary films about the Mac held screenings. While we didn't have anyone on-site at MacHEADS, a few of us were fortunate enough to attend Thursday night's screening of Welcome to Macintosh.

Welcome to Macintosh, a documentary by Josh Rizzo and Rob Baca, chronicles the history of Apple and the Mac, using interviews with the people and the users that were there. Tony Walla contributed a great piece about the film last April, which fills in more background.

While the film is amazing (the DVD is available now and it is chock-full of awesome), the discussion after the screening was truly magical. Five of the participants from the film, along with Very Special Guest, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, appeared on-stage and answered questions from the crowd. (See the Woz answer our own Mike Rose's question here)

Read on for more historic geekiness...

Gallery: Welcome to Macintosh Screening

Andy Hertzfeld, Steve Wozniak, Ron Wayne

Guy Kawasaki, Leander Kahney & Jim Reekes

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Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple History

'Welcome to Macintosh' DVD available for pre-order

by Robert Palmer (RSS feed) on Dec 1st, 2008

Welcome to Macintosh, a documentary film by Rob Baca and Josh Rizzo that covers the history and community behind the Mac phenomenon, is available for pre-order on DVD.

The DVD costs $19.84. Cute.

Billed as "the first documentary of its kind," the film explores the early years at Apple through interviews with observers and former employees of the company, such as Guy Kawasaki, Andy Hertzfeld, Ron Wayne, John Moltz, and Leander Kahney.

The DVD has three additional hours of footage beyond the 83-minute movie. Quantities, according to the official site, are limited, and orders will ship mid-December.

Thanks Tony W.!

[Via Cult of Mac.]

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Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends

Interview with MacHeads director Kobi Shely

by Joshua Ellis (RSS feed) on May 27th, 2008

Back in January, we told you about MacHeads: The Movie, an upcoming documentary about Mac ~~freaks~~ fans from brothers Kobi and Ron Shely. It looks to do for Mac people what Trekkies did for obsessive Star Trek nerds.

Apparently the brothers Shely have finished the movie, and Gizmodo's got a nice interview with Kobi Shely about the moviemaking process and the choice of subject. The filmmakers are planning to make the movie available through "community distribution"...and of course, they want to get it on iTunes.

Tags: documentary, macheads, obsessive, supernerds

Filed under: Interviews, Apple History

TUAW On Scene: from the premiere of Welcome to Macintosh

by Michael Rose (RSS feed) on Apr 17th, 2008

Here's to the crazy ones. TUAW reader Tony Walla got to attend the Wisconsin premiere of the new Mac-doc film that's sure to be a crowd pleaser (depending on the crowd), and he sent us this report.

On April 6th, the documentary "Welcome to Macintosh" premiered at the Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, WI to a packed theater of about 275 festival goers. Josh Rizzo and Rob Baca, who co-directed and produced the film, were in attendance. Before the film began, attendees could be seen checking email on their MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and iPhones. Even a Newton or two was in the crowd. One audience member even used the iSight on his MacBook Pro to snap a picture of the audience. To the attendees, this was not just a documentary, this was an Apple event.

Rizzo and Baca's goal is to tell the story of the Macintosh experience. "In order to do the Mac experience, you've got to put it in context of the Mac history," notes Baca. Rizzo added, "You can't appreciate where it is today without knowing some of the past and the fact that there is a sprit, a personality. There is a flame that lives in Apple, that lives through some of the products that is dispersed though the creativity of the people that make them."

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