panamfan Posted November 22, 2021 Report Posted November 22, 2021 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! Quote
panamfan Posted November 22, 2021 Report Posted November 22, 2021 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. Quote
Ikarus360 Posted November 24, 2021 Report Posted November 24, 2021 Finally some decent videos of the ceremony. This was also my first Pan Am Games opening which I watched, back before they started going over the top with them like the Olympics. Quote
panamfan Posted November 25, 2021 Report Posted November 25, 2021 9 hours ago, Ikarus360 said: Finally some decent videos of the ceremony. This was also my first Pan Am Games opening which I watched, back before they started going over the top with them like the Olympics. 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. Quote
Nacholympic Posted November 25, 2021 Report Posted November 25, 2021 Next Friday November 26, in Cali, Colombia, a great opening ceremony will open the very first Junior Panamerican Games (following the tendency of YOG). The show will be a display of Colombian culture, music and costumes. It will be held at Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium, the same venue of the 2013 World Games. Article in Spanish: https://www.cali.gov.co/gobierno/publicaciones/165362/cali-se-alista-para-el-espectaculo-inaugural-de-los-i-juegos-panamericanos-junior/ Quote
Nacholympic Posted November 25, 2021 Report Posted November 25, 2021 On 11/22/2021 at 5:17 PM, panamfan said: 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! The 1999 Pan Am ceremonies, despite of being 90’s classic style ceremonies, they still seem part of of a minor event. It was Rio 2007 who kicked off the Olympic Style ceremonies for Pan Am Games. Great document, anyway. Very grateful to have the chance to watch them. Quote
panamfan Posted November 25, 2021 Report Posted November 25, 2021 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) Quote
panamfan Posted November 26, 2021 Report Posted November 26, 2021 Opening Ceremony of the Ist Junior Pan American Games held last night at Pascual Guerrero Stadium in Cali, Colombia. (Spanish Commentary) Quote
panamfan Posted December 2, 2021 Report Posted December 2, 2021 21 hours ago, AustralianFan said: 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. Quote
panamfan Posted December 6, 2021 Report Posted December 6, 2021 Closing Ceremony of the Ist Junior Pan American Games - held last night in Cali. Enjoy! Quote
Ikarus360 Posted December 29, 2021 Report Posted December 29, 2021 Full closing ceremony of the 1991 All Africa Games in Cairo Quote
baron-pierreIV Posted December 30, 2021 Author Report Posted December 30, 2021 /\/\ It's so socialist-communist! Quote
Nacholympic Posted December 31, 2021 Report Posted December 31, 2021 In the last day of the year 2021, I want to show a selection of the most important ceremonies of the year. This year marked the return of ceremonies worldwide after the 2020 locked down due to COVID extreme restrictions. 2021 ceremonies in images: 1 Quote
baron-pierreIV Posted January 1, 2022 Author Report Posted January 1, 2022 On 12/30/2021 at 8:21 PM, Nacholympic said: In the last day of the year 2021, I want to show a selection of the most important ceremonies of the year. This year marked the return of ceremonies worldwide after the 2020 locked down due to COVID extreme restrictions. 2021 ceremonies in images: On 12/30/2021 at 8:21 PM, Nacholympic said: Where is that one from? Why didn't you label some of the lesser known ones? Quote
Ikarus360 Posted January 2, 2022 Report Posted January 2, 2022 Sadly mass scale ceremonies won't be coming back yet for a good while as this year doesn't look very bright at all regarding the pandemic (except for Beijing 2022 which is most likely going to still do a massive spectacle). I still think the pandemic was an excuse to justify the organizative disaster which was the Tokyo ceremonies, though. Quote
Nacholympic Posted January 4, 2022 Report Posted January 4, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 5:56 PM, baron-pierreIV said: Where is that one from? Why didn't you label some of the lesser known ones? Expo Dubai Quote
Nacholympic Posted January 4, 2022 Report Posted January 4, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 10:27 AM, Ikarus360 said: Sadly mass scale ceremonies won't be coming back yet for a good while as this year doesn't look very bright at all regarding the pandemic (except for Beijing 2022 which is most likely going to still do a massive spectacle). I still think the pandemic was an excuse to justify the organizative disaster which was the Tokyo ceremonies, though. I think ceremonies will have important changes after the pandemic... Paris 2024 will have a open ceremony on the street... and it will open the door to create the innovative - and weird - non stadium ceremonies.... It's just the beggining... Quote
baron-pierreIV Posted January 4, 2022 Author Report Posted January 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Nacholympic said: Paris 2024 will have a open ceremony on the street... and it will open the door to create the innovative - and weird - non stadium ceremonies.... It's just the beggining... For which -- because it's free -- I hope they will NOT charge exorbitant prices in those stands. It's not a staged show. And there will ALWAYS be mass-produced ceremonies in stadia -- because what do you expect to see in a vast field? One person and one dove -- after paying $500 for a seat, that's all you get?? I would feel ripped off. The mantra of Ceremonies producers is: if we're going to charge $500 - $1,000 / ticket, the least we can give the buyer is a mass show. Show them that we at least put something unique together and that for their money, they are at least getting QUANTITY. Seems totally fair to me. Quote
Nacholympic Posted January 26, 2022 Report Posted January 26, 2022 Opening Ceremony of AFCON 2021 (2022) - Africa Cup of Nations held on January 9, 2022 at Paul Biya Stadium in Yaundé, Cameroon. Full video. The ceremonu starts at minute 35:30 Quote
Brekkie Boy Posted February 19, 2022 Report Posted February 19, 2022 All the previous compilations of cauldron lightings I've seen have either skipped over Lake Placid or just had a still image. This is the first time I've seen video of their lighting included - one of the nicer cauldrons of the 80s IMO. The clip also highlights how far we've fallen with the pathetic effort of Beijing. Gone from effectively 5 cauldrons in Vancouver to zero in Beijing. Quote
Ikarus360 Posted February 20, 2022 Report Posted February 20, 2022 The cauldron downgrade is symbolic to the current state of the Olympics prestige, i'll say. Quote
BigVic Posted February 22, 2022 Report Posted February 22, 2022 Waiting for Calgary 1988, Lillehammer 1994 and Albertville 1992 plus the Atlanta 1996 Closing Ceremony Quote
baron-pierreIV Posted February 24, 2022 Author Report Posted February 24, 2022 On 2/21/2022 at 7:40 PM, BigVic said: plus the Atlanta 1996 Closing Ceremony That is a RARE one. One of the performers, the mediocre drummer going by the name of Sheila E(scovedo) served the IOC with papers that they do not have a right to put that Ceremony in the public domain because it was NOT in her contract. So she's held the free replay of the 1996 Ceremony hostage for her very PETTY and SELFISH reasons--i.e., she did not ACOG/ the IOC free replay rights. That's why contracts for all those so-called "artists" who performed at the Atlanta 1996 Closing were negotiated for nearly a year. Of course, I don't understand why they just don't cut her part out of the official print of the Ceremony? THe SELFISH B*TCH -- as if she were the greatest drummer in the whole world. BIOTCH!! Quote
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