25 Years of Mac: “Back to the Future II” Product Placement

25 Years of Mac: “Back to the Future II” Product Placement

Here’s an early Mac movie product placement. In the opening minutes of 1989”s “Back to the Future II,” Marty McFly lands in 2015, where hover cars loom, “Jaws 19” in 3D plays in movie theaters and folks sport layered outfits that only a daltonic could love.

In an antiques store, Michael J. Fox does a double-take over a “vintage” Mac sitting next to other 80s relics like a Dust Buster and a bottle of Perrier.

25 Years of Mac: “Back to the Future II” Product Placement

Found on the excellent Starring the Computer, where James Carter has compiled a few other early Mac movie sightings including “Manhattan Project” and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” both from 1986.

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  • http://coreminimalist.blogspot.com Dann

    Is the second crop there because we couldn’t see the Mac in the first picture?

  • slomacuser

    Do not forget Short Circuit (1986) – youtube com/watch?v=qPj2Y69p3ks