My hometown hosted these Olympics , I was at the opening ceremonies in my mom’s arms as I was only 10 months old.

I witnessed the entire event -- we put on a most heartfelt show for the world...

I'll never forget as a 7 year old kid being on the side of the road with my Dad watching the Olympic torch come through my town on it's way to Calgary.

@NazriB

7 ай бұрын

Lies again? Olympic Medals CAZOO GAZi

@SuperStrik9

7 ай бұрын

@@NazriB LIes? What are you talking about. I was either 6 or 7 when the torch came through Aurora, Ontario on Yonge Street. I don't remember the exact date it was over 30 years ago.

I was 8 years old during these Olympics and I remember them

Hard to believe it's the 30th Anniversary today. Time flies. Great memories and great legacies from those games. Calgary hosting again in 2026 would be cool!

@titusmccarthy

3 жыл бұрын

Not happening.

@JasonXYT

3 жыл бұрын

@Ely Santos with Calgary and the oil industry struggling, there might not even be a next time.

After the first hour the video repeats but the audio continues. The audio was about bobsledding but the video was about speed skating again.

Thank you for sharing the video~ It reminds me of my childhood!

So much chemistry between Brian and Brian

Thank you!!!

Where's Eddie the Eagle

the narrator of this sounds like he´s gonna say "and then they ALL died!" at any moment. spooky!

@johnnypeutetre

3 жыл бұрын

LOL so true!

the audio is out of place after mens figure skating

Second "Official Olympic" video where the audio track is off. Really?

It's amazing how the most simple things on earth, like editing a KZread video properly, can turn out. Thanks for that! You've ruined my day!

So many memories. Awesome.....

excellent love history love to watch Olympic Games and sport thank you

I came here for two reasons - the Jamaican bobsled team and Eddie the eagle. Judging by the comments looks like I'm going to be disappointed. :/ Weird as they're probably the two most talked about and remembered competitors of that years games.

I was in High school that year grade 10, i regret not voluntering for my Calgary games....

AMAZING!!

Re: the style of the narration. Up until the mid-90s, at least, voice over styles for events/documents such as this were still very much in the Modernist sensibility: sober, almost uninflected, lacking any 'subjective' emotion. It was, I surmise, meant to evoke the sensibility of the 'noble' and that the narrator was not imposing his or her emotional responses onto anything being experienced by the viewer. There was so be no seductive coercion, only 'neutral' depiction. Another good example is NASA's 'Moonwalk One' from 1970; the narration is cool, mystical, distanced - and is accompanied by music which, though in vogue at the time, seems by today's tastes, 'avant-garde' and 'weird' (i.e.: no 'heroic' Baroque trumpets, no overtly Romanticized melodic progressions). Olympic films such as this were treated as records, archives - not sportscasts, and so they demanded a far different delivery of commentary. The viewer today may not care for such a style, but should be aware that that's what it was - a style - as today's over articulated and juiced up commentary, often laced with irony, is also a style indicative of the sensibility of its time. It wouldn't be too presumptuous to assume that the narration of documents such as this produced today in 2018 will seem, in thirty years, 'dated' and questionable as to their aesthetic motivation.

@Alex-sv8th

4 жыл бұрын

I really like it - the different then-popular styles of each Olympic film add so much to them; gives a 'time capsule' feel

@mattjsherman

3 жыл бұрын

This was excellent. I also read the comment in the modernist voice internally.

@jeremytaylor9308

2 жыл бұрын

Very well illustrated view of the evolution of spoken word in media.

@jimreily7538

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could find audiobooks narrated with similar style to this. I really enjoy it.

@LazyDaisyDay88

2 жыл бұрын

Its much better than modern commentary. Tired of being forced to watch 'personalities' generally being over excitable and making it all about them...

5:06, the opening declaration by Jeanne Sauvé

I love the narrator!

1:36:19 to 2:33:00 - Whats up with the audio? Have to give a thumbs down because of poor editing. Ruined my viewing.

Beautiful

Audio badly out of sync, please rectify...

Quiero en español estos videos me encanta la historia de los juegos olimpicos...me haria un gran favor si nos da una en español latino

The sound is inappropriate for video (from 1.36.20).

please put the right audio on :(((((((

Bud Greenspan sighting at 1:11:52. He made this film.

Do you have Seoul '88 16 Days Of Glory

Olympics, Since we're getting close to Winter Olympic Games Pyeongchang 2018, do you have the official Winter Olympic Films from 1952 (Oslo, Norway), 1956 (Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy), 1960 (Squaw Valley, United States), 1964 (Innsbruck, Austria), 1972 (Sapporo, Japan), 1976 (Innsbruck, Austria), 1980 (Lake Placid, United States), 1984 (Sarajevo, Yugoslavia), 1992 (Albertville, France), 1998 (Nagano, Japan), 2010 (Vancouver, Canada) and/or 2014 (Sochi, Russia)?

@sailport1973

4 жыл бұрын

Please don't forget Lillehammer, 1994.

GREAT! Love it!

Hi for me the Best winter games calgary 1988 and lilehammer 1994

Can you add a Film on The SLC 2002 games? I considered those the best winter games

Last time the that Soviet Union was in the 1988 Winter Olympic games.

C'mon where is Sarajevo 1984 story?? It's not fair

Fact: the shape of the torch is a similar design to the calgary tower

No Gordeeva and Grinkov?? NO EDDIE THE EAGLE???????

@butacup3324

7 жыл бұрын

They are missing from the '94 video too! :(

@roulianleponey45

5 жыл бұрын

No one cares about doped russians

@perjacobs

4 жыл бұрын

It's about top sport, not JOKES

32 years ago.

Liz seems a great person to be friends with ❤

Awesome

1:10:44 🅱️🅱️ 🥈 1:14:01 ☄️ 1:17:48 ©️

Nakiska is awesome

WOW

the audio is bad

Does anyone know where the music around 26:50 is called or where its from?

@anthonyalzamora4566

Жыл бұрын

“Winter Games” by David Foster.

Nice film, yet the audio editing after 1hr 37 does not match the images. ☹️

Where are the cool runners of Jamaica bobsled team?

Corrupt judging system and rigid school figures deprived Midori Ito of her well-deserved medals.

Why wasn't Eddie The Eagle in this footage he made world Olympic history for Great Britain ?

Lots of XC!!

All soviet and gdr were suspect at that time

What happened after about 1:30 hours?

Matti Nykaenen [*]

BRAZILIAN Greeting from brazil 👋 Olympic winter Calgary 88 Vancouver 2010 Canada?

@Ithoughtthiswasamerica

Жыл бұрын

Montreal 76 for Summer Olympics as well

Where I live!!

why did it say "KANADA?"

Please sarajevo 1984 official olympic film complete search

Games of the cool runnings bobsled Team and eddy the eagle

What happened in the middle? Film and commentary dont match?

Useless consider 1/2 way thru the audio is incorrect...too bad.

who won the 1988 Olympics? what country

@hectorcruzr.8916

8 жыл бұрын

Calgary, Canada Winter Olympics and Seoul, South Korea the summer games.

*wot* hapPENed* 2THE AU-DIO/vide-o-sync IN th' midD-LE SeCTION?

ice hockey?

@chvzrvnn

8 жыл бұрын

+Tomi bácsi Had it been known that it would be the last time the Red Machine would win gold under their National colors; I'm certain the Greenspans would have included an extra long segment.

@david-sb2mh

3 жыл бұрын

Spain win. Your wellcome.

il y a 33 ans

Claims from two make Up isthmay is not maygog.

IT'S A SHAME, WHAT A BIG MISTAKE, SPEEDSKATING AND THE VOICE WAS TALKING ABOUT OTHER SPORTS, THE OFFICIAL CALGARY 1988 FILM IS THE BIGGEST DISASTER IN THE HISTORY OF OLYMPIC GAMES!!!

@Marco-nx5tj

5 жыл бұрын

Shut up