Steve Jobs: the Lost Interview to Show at Landmark Theaters November 16 & 17

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The possibility of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography being turned into a movie is still being discussed. But even before that movie gets produced, Apple fans can see their idol in the big screens in the upcoming film Steve Jobs: the Lost Interview.

The film is actually footage of a 1990′s interview with Steve Jobs done for a 1996 PBS and BBC miniseries entitled Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires, which featured the origins of the PC industry and how Silicon Valley emerged as the center of all things tech.

Robert Cringley’s interview with Steve Jobs lasted for about 70 minutes, but only 10 minutes made it to the final cut of the miniseries. All raw footage of the interview had vanished since then, only to resurface almost two decades after in a VHS copy which the director kept — and forgotten — in his garage. The director didn’t see any commercial value in the interview, but Cringley thought otherwise. He pitched the recording to Mark Cuban, who agreed to show the interview at Landmark Theaters in 17 cities around the country, including New York, Los Angeles and Palo Alto.

The actual interview focuses on Jobs’ experience with Apple’s origins, dealings with Microsoft and his eventual ouster from Apple. Jobs was said to be emotional and cranky during the interview, which brought out his more interesting side.

Steve Jobs: the Lost Interview screens November 16 and 17, although the screening at Palo Alto theaters will run for a full week. Check out an excerpt from the original PBS broadcast below, where Jobs describes how he first got interested in graphical interfaces from a visit at Xerox PARC.