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These postings are dedicated to the artistic development of the opening ceremony including visual arts, music, and other aspects of one of the rarest and largest art forms on earth. Of course, the first ceremonies were not as elaborate as the most recent ones, but you will be able to watch the development. Here is what you have to look forward to:
- Video of EVERY Official Opening Ceremony (the complete ceremony if possible)
- The official ceremony reports - took me MANY hours to compile - with hundreds of pictures!
- Photos of the official aspects of the games (medals, torch, poster, etc.)
- Most importantly - info, records, and highlights of the artistic development of the opening ceremony
CLICK ON THE OLYMPICS BELOW TO LEARN ABOUT THE OPENING CEREMONY
SUMMER GAMES1896 Athens1900 Paris1904 St. Louis1906 Intercalated Games Athens1908 London1912 Stockholm
1916 cancelled Berlin1920 Antwerp1924 Paris1928 Amsterdam1932 Los Angeles1936 Berlin1940 cancelled Tokyo/Helsinki1944 cancelled London1948 London1952 Helsinki
1956 Equestrian Games Stockholm1956 Melbourne1960 Rome1964 Tokyo1968 Mexico City1972 Munich (entire ceremony)1976 Montreal (entire ceremony)1980 Moscow (entire ceremony)1984 Los Angeles (entire ceremony)1988 Seoul (entire ceremony)1992 Barcelona (entire ceremony)1996 Atlanta (entire ceremony)2000 Sydney (entire ceremony)2004 Athens (entire ceremony)2008 Beijing (entire ceremony)
2012 London (entire ceremony)
WINTER GAMES
1924 Chamonix
1928 St. Moritz
1932 Lake Placid
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1940 cancelled Sapporo/St. Moritz/Garmisch-Partenkirchen
1944 cancelled Cortina d'Ampezzo
1948 St. Moritz
1952 Oslo
1956 Corina d'Ampezzo
1960 Squaw Valley
1964 Innsbruck
1968 Grenoble
1972 Sapporo
1976 Innsbruck
1980 Lake Placid
1984 Sarajevo (entire ceremony)
1988 Calgary (entire ceremony)
1992 Albertville (entire ceremony)
1994 Lillehammer (entire ceremony)
1998 Nagano (entire ceremony)
2002 Salt Lake City (entire ceremony)
2006 Torino (entire ceremony)
2010 Vancouver (entire ceremony)
2014 Sochi (entire ceremony)
Keep in mind, that this may be the largest comprehensive online collection studying the Olympic opening ceremony art and how it has evolved since 1896 - it's completely free for everyone and will contain one of the world's largest online collections of Opening Ceremony video. If you have any video to contribute, please contact me!
I hope that my years of collecting and researching video and other information will be helpful in the future study of this art form, as it is one of the most significant art forms in the modern world.
This collection of information and video are in many cases very rare and in some cases, the first digitized production available online. Each film attempts to recreate the ceremony in its entirety with the exception of the Parade of Nations (for obvious time reasons). Special posts and information on the ceremonies will also be available for the 1906 Intercalated Games, the Olympic Games cancelled because of the World Wars, and the 1956 Equestrian Games. Again, much of this information is rare and contain very rare photos and video - every Summer Olympic Opening Ceremony from 1972 to the present, with the exception of 1984, can be seen in their entirety and every Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony from 1988 to the present can be seen in their entirety!