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I am so glad I finally had the chance to see the 1982 Asian Games ceremonies. India put on first-rate ceremonies. The influence of the Moscow Olympic ceremonies was obvious - from the very similar sign boards and the national dances after the protocol, to the farewell to the mascot at the closing ceremony. And of course the musical ride and the martial bands hearken back to the influence of British culture in India as well. Interesting as well to see a pre-OCA ceremony and compare it to the later OCA sanctioned ceremonies. I have to say, also, that the Indian public broadcaster, Dardooshan, whose feed these are from, did an excellent job of televising them as well. Considering these were among their very first color telecasts, there were hardly any technical glitches, the sound was loud and clear, and the pictures were beautiful.

Closing Ceremony of the IXth Asian Games New Delhi 1982 (Part 2)

Closing Ceremony of the IXth Asian Games New Delhi 1982 (Part 1)

Opening Ceremony of the IXth Asian Games New Delhi 1982 (Part 3)

Opening Ceremony of the IXth Asian Games - New Dehli 1982 (Part 2)

Opening Ceremony of the IXth Asian Games - New Delhi 1982 (Part 1)

Opening Ceremony of the IIIrd Junior South American Games

Beijing 2022 Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies

Beijing 2022 Opening and Closing Ceremonies

Closing Ceremony of the Ist Junior Pan American Games - held last night in Cali. Enjoy!

Hope this means the IOC will be posting the Sarajevo Opening and Closing Ceremonies on it's youtube channel at some point! Glad to see the IOC is diligently trying to track down the world feed tapes for the older games.

Opening Ceremony of the Ist Junior Pan American Games held last night at Pascual Guerrero Stadium in Cali, Colombia. (Spanish Commentary)

I just made an interesting find. The records of PAX-I, the organizing committee for the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, are held in the archives of Indiana University/Purdue University of Indiana (IUPUI). Apparently, IUPUI has digitalized all of the PAX-I records, including all audiovisual materials included therein. These materials include the master tapes of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Apparently, they are available to view online, but you need to be able to login to the IUPUI computer system to do so. Here is a link if anyone wishes to try their luck with it. Boy how I would love to see those. The Tenth Pan American Games- Indianapolis- Opening Ceremonies- Master 1, 1987-08-07 | ArchivesSpace Public Interface (iupui.edu)

The 1999 ceremonies are among my favorite pan ams. I just wish the whole ceremonies would surface. They were vvery nice, if somewhat low budget, with great music by Victor Davies. The interesting thing about the Clausura Winnipeg 1999 video is that it appears to be from a raw feed - without TV announcers or commercials. I wonder if the person who posted it has the whole ceremony or if what he put up was all he has? Canadian broadcasts of ceremonies (Edmonton 1983, Victoria 1994, Winnipeg 1999, i.e.) never seem to show up on youtube. Do canadians not record from TV at home to the extent that others do? There are plenty of CFL broadcasts that show up, but not much else.

Rosalie Drysdale sings the theme song for the 1999 Pan Am Games, Reach Out - Go For Gold, live to a worldwide audience of 400 million viewers, from the Winnipeg Stadium during the grand finale of the opening ceremony. Song was composed by Victor Davies. Posted on her official youtube channel.

AT LAST!!!! A nice portion of the Closing Ceremony of the XIIIth Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1999. Held at Winnipeg Stadium. I have also relinked another video showing the "Guess Who" reunion performance at the end of the ceremony. ENJOY!

Wow! Check this out! An original TV broadcast of one hour of highlights recapping CBS coverage of the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley! I don't know how they found this, but Wow!

Closing Ceremony of the XIVth Pan American Games in Santo Domingo 2003 in full 1080p HD! Enjoy!

Official posts of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games:

Two new videos of the Sheffield 1991 World University Games Opening Ceremony. First is the TV broadcast version of the ceremony. This version includes Helen Sharman's infamous dropping of the torch. Ironically, she comments during an interview at the beginning about how horrible it would be if she were to drop the torch! Second, is a recap of the ceremony with interviews and explanations of some of the production numbers in the ceremony. Enjoy!

Very rare footage from Indianapolis TV of the 1982 National Sports Festival - including footage from the lighting of the flame at the opening ceremony! Enjoy!

Opening Ceremony of the 1989 South Asian Federation Games in Islamabad.

Los Angeles 1984 Closing Ceremony - raw satellite feed - no cutaways for commercials.

The IOC had added two new ceremony videos to its official website (NOT its youtube channel) Highlights of the CBS broadcast of the Squaw Valley 1960 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony hosted by Walter Cronkite: https://olympics.com/en/video/squaw-valley-1960-opening-ceremony The Moscow 1980 Opening Ceremony (just the protocol part - not the cultural part): https://olympics.com/en/video/opening-ceremony-moscow-1980

Finally uploaded to the Official Olympic Youtube Channel: The Torino 2006 Closing Ceremony in full: