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Lucasfilm's Computer Division
盧卡斯影業的電腦部門
When Jobs was losing his footing at Apple in the summer of 1985,
1985年夏天，喬布斯在蘋果公司正處于失勢中。
he went for a walk with Alan Kay, who had been at Xerox PARC and was then an Apple Fellow.
一天，他和艾倫·凱一起散步，凱曾在施樂PARC工作，當時是蘋果公司職員。
Kay knew that Jobs was interested in the intersection of creativity and technology,
凱知道，喬布斯對創意與技術的交融很感興趣，
so he suggested they go see a friend of his, Ed Catmull,
于是建議他一同拜訪自己的朋友埃德·卡特穆爾。
who was running the computer division of George Lucas's film studio.
卡特穆爾當時是喬治·盧卡斯電影制片廠電腦部門的負責人。
They rented a limo and rode up to Marin County to the edge of Lucas's Skywalker Ranch,
喬布斯他們租了一輛豪華轎車，駕車前往馬林郡，來到盧卡斯天行者牧場的邊上，
where Catmull and his little computer division were based.
卡特穆爾及其電腦部門就在這里。
"I was blown away, and I came back and tried to convince Sculley to buy it for Apple," Jobs recalled.
“我感到很震撼，回公司以后就試圖說服斯卡利把它收購下來。”喬布斯回憶道，
"But the folks running Apple weren't interested, and they were busy kicking me out anyway."
“但是管理蘋果公司的那幫家伙對此不感興趣，而且他們正忙著把我趕出去?！?/div>
The Lucasfilm computer division made hardware and software for rendering digital images,
盧卡斯影業電腦部門由使圖像數字化的軟硬件團隊、
and it also had a group of computer animators making shorts,
還有一個電腦動畫團隊制作動畫短片，
which was led by a talented cartoon-loving executive named John Lasseter.
由極具天賦的動畫導演約翰·拉塞特帶領。
Lucas, who had completed his first Star Wars trilogy, was embroiled in a contentious divorce, and he needed to sell off the division.
盧卡斯當時已經完成了他的《星球大戰》三部曲的第一部，正陷入一場爭吵不斷的離婚案中，他需要賣掉這個電腦部門。
He told Catmull to find a buyer as soon as possible.
盧卡斯叫卡特穆爾盡快找到買家。
