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I was there, aged 9. I still have the plastic sheet that was under the seats for the audience participation bit at 1:20:00.

Thank you for uploading this, great memories of the best Olympics opening ceremony in my life time followed by London's in 2012!

I just recognized the music they are playing: it is from the Battle of Britain movie and was actually supposed to be celebrating the Luftwaffe

Richard, thanks so much for posting this! I had posted our family's old VHS recording of the band portion a few years ago, but the video and audio quality was not great. Not only is the sound great here, and the video the best I've seen so far, I LOVE that it shows the performance without commentary or commercials - just like those in the stadium would have taken in the show. I was one of the Sousaphone players in the band, having just graduated from USC that Spring. Great memories!

I cant wait for the next olympiad!!! LA 2028

Hardly anyone put their hand over the heart except President Reagan in those days.. and I still don't

I was a volunteer on the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 1984 Olympics. I remember putting out alot of those poles and sandbags on the field for the those ballons. I was in the basketball arena behind the Stadium as that was the staging areas for the competitors, performers and TV crew. 40 years have gone by but I've never forgotten that summer. What a privilege that God gave to me. Truly a once in a lifetime experience.❤

So much better than a lot of that garbage in Paris

It's been 40 years since the 1984 Summer Olympics began.

As I watch this, it is 40 years to the day (7/28/24) that these ceremonies took place. I didn't get to watch them live as I was in Basic Training at Fort Sill, OK at the time.

Bananas - A Film, without audio 😄🍌. Good clip, thank you for posting. Love these interviews from the past, especially the fashion 😍

Who is here after paris 2024??

Anyone here after Paris to regrow brain cells?

Richard Simonton - America's Finest Moment as was Beijing 2008's Shining Moment

Probably my favorite memory, all those rehearsals in the week culminating in the Olympic Band performance for opening and closing ceremonies.

So much fantastic recording history. I hope all that equipment has been preserved.

4:10 Notice the Handel reverse painted lamp with original acorn pulls there on the table…..

Enjoyed a blast from the past. Thanks Richard Lyn L

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing.

7:23 from Los Angeles, California. ABC sports proudly presents the opening ceremony of the games of the 23rd Olympiad.

I was part of the 1984 Olympic Drill team. They auditioned Cheerleaders, drill teams, tumblers, etc in the end what an amazing experience. I still have my origram and uniform. So many great memories.

Did Gaylord Carter played Underworldly Concerto (Grim Grinning Ghosts)?

The Jet Pack was Awesome

Does anyone know the name of the music playing when the Australian team is introduced? Around 1 hour and 34 minutes into this video.

Man what a sound! So rich and full. The e bay has some great ones this week. A 1966 custom 3 manual theater organ for practically nothing! And a very very rare Estey Grand Minuet with colored Theater tabs!

🫶🏼 Memorable entry of the representatives of Mexico 🇲🇽, with the exquisite musical detail 🎼🎺🎻🥁🎶 of "La march de Zacatecas", composed in 1892 by Genaro Codina.

Happy Birthday Los Angeles 40 years many greetings to Patrick

Los Angeles 1984 ist Kult Gruß Patrick

Didn't know Kenya was a city in the country of Africa.

Who y'all think will be lighting the torch in '28? Im assuming it's going to be a woman since all the previous have been men. Maybe the 96 gymnastics team?

I was there. Incredible.

I remember watching this live and cheering Romania from home!

I think I know where Los Angeles belongs in 2032 - 100 Years after the first Olympics. Give it some Thought USA.

Richard I'm excited about the Paris Opening Ceremony. All afternoon Live from Paris - What is your feeling - Too Commercialized with Less Talk and letting the Public Address do the Leading of the Viewers.

our high school performed with etta james and the michael jackson dance

Moscú fue más bonito

17:15 🇲🇽

Television coverage to Japan was carried out by the Intelsat Pacific satellite. The line was disconnected twice. This was not uncommon for television space broadcasts of the Olympic Games in the 20th century. In Japan at the time, it was called "space broadcast" instead of "satellite broadcast," and the announcer said, "It costs money! Watch carefully!"日本へのテレビ中継は、インテルサット太平洋衛星で行われました。2回回線が切れました。20世紀のオリンピックのテレビ宇宙中継では、珍しくありませんでした。この当時の日本では、「衛星中継」ではなく「宇宙中継」と言われ「金がかかってる！心して見よ！」とアナウンサーに言われました。

Gaylord played a concert in Toronto in the 60's on a Conn theatre organ with dozens of speakers and amps. He didn't have to apologize for the setup. He could make great music on a slide whistle if that's what was available. A true musician!

When Harold Lloyd says that if his car is damaged, he'll sue for $10,000: that amount in 1920 would equal $155,163 in 2024 money. That was quite a high-class automobile!

Wow, I’ve been looking for the past few decades for a clean feed of the opening ceremonies. I was in the parade of nations for Switzerland and didn’t see much of Switzerland in the US broadcast. In this version, I saw Switzerland numerous times and myself two times! Thank you so much for this video. It brings back a flood of memories! I hope one day ABC uses the original tapes to create a full video but this one is invaluable.

What did that "world opening ceremony" mean? Did the organizers think this was for the World Series ( which ISNT a worldwide competition!)?!? Its the Olympics, you American nitwits!

Yugoslavia,Romania and China didn't Boyscott the Olympic

29:14 I’m Romanian but the moment where the people were applauding the Romanian delegate has a pertinent reason: during the communist period, the socialist nations from Eastern Europe has boycotted the OG 1984, as a response of US’ boycott from OG in 1980. And of course, Romania hasn’t accepted this thing 😊, and we have participated

México 😍

10 years old back then…Thank you for sharing this.. I can now look at this in a whole different perspective. America and its love of Bands!!! This ceremony is absolutely beautiful.

My late father captured about 5 minutes of the event on VHS ("Fame" and "Beat It" segments - technically he recorded longer period but unfortunately it been overwritten so that what I got). I was captivated by it and spent laterally over 20 years curious about what was the ceremony! Thank you for sharing it; it really means a lot! :D

Always a pleasure to hear the dear departed Gaylord Carter! You are missed! I was honored to be in attendance in his home several times for parties or AGO-Long Beach events. You are still the master of the theater organist!🎹

A broadcast without background chatter proves that host-less TV coverage is perfectly fine or even preferable. Vids of this same event with commentators of the past, Jim McKay (a sportscaster who died in 2008) & Peter Jennings (a newscaster who died in 2005), show their need to gab ruined the presentation. When sportscasters & newscasters are given big dollars, they feel a need to show they're being paid by the word. The opening number "Welcome" was crapped on by the hosts' voiceovers & portions of the ceremony were either omitted (for required commercial breaks---at least understandable) or replaced by talking heads, which are often as much a snooze as what they elbow out.

Its not the Olympic games of Los Angeles (1:06:25) - its the 1984 World Olympics held in Los Angeles.