+AAron Thom The song title sums it up and was the BBC theme tune. Highlights for me, Chris Boardman, Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Steve Redgrave won his third consecutive gold in rowing following 1984 and 1988. My earliest memory of the Olympics was Seoul 1988. As usual, BBC broadcasted the coverage and surprisingly ITV. Oh and a Greek athlete won the 100m hurdles in Barcelona '92. One of the surprise moments of the games. Barcelona is such a big city in Spain probably due to its famous football club so it has a bit of sporting heritage. Note that the Unified Team who were in a transitional period at the time are now Russia (formerly Soviet Union). Fermin Cacho's win in the Men's 1500m is another highlight and got the Spanish crowd going. Mentioning Chris Boardman winning gold in cycling at the Velodrome, it is somewhat forgotten now compared to say Chris Hoy in the last two to three Olympic Games including London 2012.
Barcelona 1992 was very important because Estonia came there as independent state. Latvia and Lithuania did the same. Our country won two medals- gold of cycling and bronze of sailing.
Dieser Film trägt Atmosphäre und den olympischen Geist. Eleganz, Kraft, Siegeswille, Mut, Freude und Enttäuschung. Momente für die Ewigkeit. Die Vielfalt des Sport und dass nicht nur der Sieg zählt. Meiner Ansicht nach ein Meisterwerk und dafür die Goldmedaille!!!
What an amazing upload!! Beautiful film and the best Opening Ceremony ever! Game changer. Thank you Olympic channel for posting. Can you upload the films for Beijing, London and Rio?
Maybe Freddie Mercury couldn't make it to sing Barcelona in these games, but he did put and entire audience to his feet in London 2012 Closing Ceremony being dead. That's a legend.
This Olympics, in Barcelona 1992 will always be in our Indonesian hearts. The very first time our country got gold medals through the Olympics golden couple. Barcelona and Spain, we love you. Question: Do you Spaniards actually know that an Indonesian singer in the 80s used to write a romantic song about Barcelona?
Cosas para recordar de esta edición: Únicos Juegos presentados en cuatro idiomas (la mayoría se presenta en dos o hasta tres). El último vestigio deportivo de la disuelta URSS, el llamado equipo unificado. El Dream Team en básquetbol, que no tuvo rivales. Y la forma más arriesgada y espectacular de encender el pebetero olímpico. Nunca antes visto, y nunca después igualado.
Can we all stopped for a moment and realize that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe made this song for the Olympics I tell you a Freddy head of lived it would have gone down as one of the greatest performances in the history of the Olympics
His parents lived round the corner from me. In Feltham, Middlesex. Just by Heathrow airport. I saw him a few times. Brian May and Anita Dobson visited them after his death. Freddie was a nice bloke.
El cineasta Carlos Saura se encargó de filmar con celuloide los momentos más mágicos y emotivos de los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992. Ahí quedará para la Historia la Película Oficial de los Juegos de la XXVª Olimpíada.
1984 LA, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Albertville, 1998 Nagano, 2008 Beijing are missing. And technically, this video is not the actual Bud Greenspan film for the 1992 Barcelona games.
una hermosa ciudad, dicen que hay un antes y un despues de los juegos olimpicos en la ciudad de Barcelona, para mi uno de los mejores juegos olimpicos de la historia, pero la coyuntura la hizo mas interesante, recien caia el comunismo en Europa, nuevos paises, el famoso Dream Team compitiendo en basquetbol, etc.
How odd, why are the London 1948 Olympics; Mexico 1968; Melbourne 1956 all in sumptuous color clarity but this modern Barcelona 1992, Sydney 2000 and the other relatively modern Olympic games films are all grainy and poor quality film?
The older all Olympic films were shot on film and from 92 on they were shot on video. With film if you scan the original final film then you will get very good resolution. It is said that 16mm film can resolve resolution up to 4k. In the video, we are just now getting to the point of shooting at 4k resolution. Unfortunately, since they shot the entire Olympics in Video, you will only ever get the max of that format, so in the case of Barcelona 92- Athens 04 were all shot in SD So a Max of 480 lines of resolution. To add insult to injury, it was all shot interlaced too, so that is why you get those jaggies throughout the video.
Many of the official films of the Olympic Games are being restored in a long project. Unfortunately we haven't been able to put up all of them as restored as they were not ready, but some of the ones you mentioned have been fully restored and that's why they have incredible quality.
And then Doordarshan lost their monopoly on Indian television when England toured India in early 1993. TWI and Sky sports were the broadcasters. Huge change for televised cricket in India.
Where's volleyball, water polo, handball, women's gymnastics, canoying, judo, diving, so many sports stayed out from this movie. It should have been more diverse.
Thanks for that. Coming up in the U.S. System you rarely study anything European broadcast related. looks like it was also called HD-MAC. I'll read up on it HD in the 80, 90's is right up my level of fascination.
It did not go anywhere. In 1991 in the U.S. General Instrument entered the first digital HTDV system in the running, in 1994 test runs of the Grand Alliance system commenced. Same year NHK cancelled its MUSE system. Digital HDTV won. But HD-MAC had its shining moment in Albertville and Barselona in 1992, this is what I expected to see on the official Olympics channel. This video, despite offering 1080p setting, seems to be deinterlaced and upscaled from standard def footage. Such is fate of the European HD initiative: the documents, equipment and footage has not been well preserved.
Understood thanks for the history! I have a feeling that if they ever wanted to do an HD version, it would take a considerable effort because i suspect they converted them to some SD format to ease of use.
En cuanto a filme me gustó más el de México 1968 y a parte porque aquí lo que en su mayoría es atletismo y no más ganando Estados Unidos en su mayoría -.- hasta la hora con 25 minutos ponen natación y luego se nuevo atletismo
What was the exact theme of this opening ceremony? The ship on the waves with all the guys on it only made me think of the Spanish conquistadors crossing the ocean to the Americas to pillage and plunder. Wish I could understand the Spanish subtitles explaining it.
actually if you read the screen on the stadium there it says at 7:15 "el mediterraneo, mar olimpico"... the mediterrean, olympic sea... I think it's a representation of the ancient warriors arriving to Greece, to play the games...
0:01 Freddie Mercury... Eh...oh...!, but sadly, he passed away, just several months later..., after he battle with AIDS (Pneumonia)..., for Seven years...😭😭😭
Barcelona 92 is the first Olympics I remember watching, just amazing that this was 23 years ago! 😱
+AAron Thom The song title sums it up and was the BBC theme tune. Highlights for me, Chris Boardman, Sally Gunnell, Linford Christie and Steve Redgrave won his third consecutive gold in rowing following 1984 and 1988. My earliest memory of the Olympics was Seoul 1988. As usual, BBC broadcasted the coverage and surprisingly ITV. Oh and a Greek athlete won the 100m hurdles in Barcelona '92. One of the surprise moments of the games. Barcelona is such a big city in Spain probably due to its famous football club so it has a bit of sporting heritage. Note that the Unified Team who were in a transitional period at the time are now Russia (formerly Soviet Union). Fermin Cacho's win in the Men's 1500m is another highlight and got the Spanish crowd going. Mentioning Chris Boardman winning gold in cycling at the Velodrome, it is somewhat forgotten now compared to say Chris Hoy in the last two to three Olympic Games including London 2012.
Barcelona 1992 was very important because Estonia came there as independent state. Latvia and Lithuania did the same. Our country won two medals- gold of cycling and bronze of sailing.
It's more years ago
Me 2
Same here!!!
Thank you Freddie Mercury and Queen, for providing Barcelona with its Olympic theme song.
Not queen, just freddie mercury and monserrat caballe
Dieser Film trägt Atmosphäre und den olympischen Geist. Eleganz, Kraft, Siegeswille, Mut, Freude und Enttäuschung. Momente für die Ewigkeit. Die Vielfalt des Sport und dass nicht nur der Sieg zählt. Meiner Ansicht nach ein Meisterwerk und dafür die Goldmedaille!!!
What an amazing upload!! Beautiful film and the best Opening Ceremony ever! Game changer. Thank you Olympic channel for posting. Can you upload the films for Beijing, London and Rio?
So beautifully filmed
18:18-19:45
I was not expected to hear one of my favorite songs of Mikis Theodorakis. Awesome !!!
Yess my love music
i know its been 4 years but... im actually curious now, what is that song's name?
@@iamarizonaball2642"Sopa ,opou nanai tha simanoun oi kampanes".
Lyrics ,Giannis Ritsos ,Romiossini.
Maybe Freddie Mercury couldn't make it to sing Barcelona in these games, but he did put and entire audience to his feet in London 2012 Closing Ceremony being dead. That's a legend.
This Olympics, in Barcelona 1992 will always be in our Indonesian hearts. The very first time our country got gold medals through the Olympics golden couple. Barcelona and Spain, we love you.
Question: Do you Spaniards actually know that an Indonesian singer in the 80s used to write a romantic song about Barcelona?
i didnt know that| Whats the name of the song?
@@pachekk-il7oy It's "Barcelona" by Fariz RM. One groovy piece of nostalgia, I must say
@@michaeljasonsaputra19991121 Thank you!!😁
First Olympic Games watch in my life.
Los mejores juegos olímpicos de la historia !
@Eurovision GOLD haha. Keep dreaming!
sin duda la mejor olimpiada que bonita inauguración y clausura BARCELONA TIENE PODER
Atenas 2004:
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
Cosas para recordar de esta edición:
Únicos Juegos presentados en cuatro idiomas (la mayoría se presenta en dos o hasta tres).
El último vestigio deportivo de la disuelta URSS, el llamado equipo unificado.
El Dream Team en básquetbol, que no tuvo rivales.
Y la forma más arriesgada y espectacular de encender el pebetero olímpico. Nunca antes visto, y nunca después igualado.
Y una isla del Tercer Mundo quedó en 5to lugar en el medallero.
Y Alfredo Mercurio. Eso es mucho muy importante.
Can we all stopped for a moment and realize that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe made this song for the Olympics I tell you a Freddy head of lived it would have gone down as one of the greatest performances in the history of the Olympics
ok
His parents lived round the corner from me. In Feltham, Middlesex. Just by Heathrow airport. I saw him a few times. Brian May and Anita Dobson visited them after his death. Freddie was a nice bloke.
El cineasta Carlos Saura se encargó de filmar con celuloide los momentos más mágicos y emotivos de los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992. Ahí quedará para la Historia la Película Oficial de los Juegos de la XXVª Olimpíada.
Still my fave olympics
Barcelona 1992 junto con Antenas 2004 siguen siendo espectaculares
Beijing 2008 el mejor del siglo XXl, y Barcelona 92 el mejor del siglo XX
@@SebastianAlarcon-b1gAtenas 2004:
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
Beautiful film. Great music choices.
What is the music, does anybody know?
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé
@@angyliv8040 Barcelona
The best OG ever .., from France
Agreed, from Cuba
My mom watched it on nbc when she was 16. She was so shocked when the cauldron was lit
Do you mean shcoked
@@tarheelking2515 fixed
SINCE 28 YEARS AGO, SIMPLY THE BEST SINCE,,,,,,,
inesquecivel.show dirigido pelo grande diretor Carlos Saura.Brasil campeao de volley masculino.grato por postar.de Sao Paulo Brasil
Thank you for this upload
But where is the film of 1988 summer olympics in Seoul ??
I was wondering the same thing. Can't find Seoul Olympics either. I was trying to find the 1972 Munich games as well, but no go.
1984 LA, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Albertville, 1998 Nagano, 2008 Beijing are missing. And technically, this video is not the actual Bud Greenspan film for the 1992 Barcelona games.
Specterling I was able to find the 1984 opening ceremony
Soy mexicano y pienso que fueron unos buenos juegos
QEPD Carlos Saura. Gran legado...
best Olympics ever
16:31, the opening declaration by King Juan Carlos I
Corrupt king. He is king thanks to Franco, a dictator.
We, the catalans, have no king.
@@rubenjara5794 Ok cry baby. 🍼
una hermosa ciudad, dicen que hay un antes y un despues de los juegos olimpicos en la ciudad de Barcelona, para mi uno de los mejores juegos olimpicos de la historia, pero la coyuntura la hizo mas interesante, recien caia el comunismo en Europa, nuevos paises, el famoso Dream Team compitiendo en basquetbol, etc.
I looooove these movies. It gives you such a different focus and elegance for these competitions.
Anybody know the song from 46:40 minutes during the slow mo relay part??
Elgar's cello concerto
@@simongalfe1663 You're rgith that is Elgar. but my time stamp was wrong. I'm looking for the sequence at 46:40 any idea?
IVE BEEN TO SPAIN WHEN I WAS 9, IT WAS A BLAST
19:45 Pebetero / Torch Lighting
Proud to be barcelonan, catalan and european.
Catalans flags everywhere in the crowd.
Cállate un mes, españolazo.
Where is Krisztina Egerszegi, the best ever female swimmer? She won 3 Golds in Barcelona.
Barcelona's Queen theme is amaizing!
Not Queen. Mercury & Caballé.
How odd, why are the London 1948 Olympics; Mexico 1968; Melbourne 1956 all in sumptuous color clarity but this modern Barcelona 1992, Sydney 2000 and the other relatively modern Olympic games films are all grainy and poor quality film?
Probably because the old videos were in even worse condition & hence had to be restored, while the new ones hasn't deteriorated much?
julio
The older all Olympic films were shot on film and from 92 on they were shot on video. With film if you scan the original final film then you will get very good resolution. It is said that 16mm film can resolve resolution up to 4k. In the video, we are just now getting to the point of shooting at 4k resolution. Unfortunately, since they shot the entire Olympics in Video, you will only ever get the max of that format, so in the case of Barcelona 92- Athens 04 were all shot in SD So a Max of 480 lines of resolution. To add insult to injury, it was all shot interlaced too, so that is why you get those jaggies throughout the video.
Many of the official films of the Olympic Games are being restored in a long project.
Unfortunately we haven't been able to put up all of them as restored as they were not ready, but some of the ones you mentioned have been fully restored and that's why they have incredible quality.
Hi olympic i want to know if you are going to upload the official film of the 1952,1960,1980,1984,1988 olympic summer games thanks
Is there a playlist for these?
yes, it's called "Olympic History | Official Films" ;)
1:10:13 - Men's Basketball
barcalona so pretty at night
Los mejores de la historia.
Why quality is so blur? Telecine from video?
1:56:00 I love that classical song, (😇BEAUTIFUL😇)
where is the Full film of 1992 summer Canoeing olympics in Barcelona!
this is the full film.
the game that look like tennis seems nice. what do they call it and why its not in the olympic games
I think It Is pelota.....Is a spanish game
Loved the moment then, shown at 28'
o acender da chama olimpica no estádio foi o momento mais arrojado de sempre na história dos jogos
만약 이 영상을 보는 한국인이 있다면 당신은 국뽕에 취할수 밖에 없을것이다. 영조형.....캬....ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Excelente
No narrator?
No need ! Artistic view point. Loved that there was no narrator by the way
Anyone from India ? I remember watching some of this on doordarshan At least the Barceloonaaaa part . I was 11 years old then .
And then Doordarshan lost their monopoly on Indian television when England toured India in early 1993. TWI and Sky sports were the broadcasters. Huge change for televised cricket in India.
Es el único que veo completo por qué es el único que entiendo.
The clip should have included 10,000m women and men finals.
46:37 and further.. Carl Lewis flying
@@stefgent88 yes, 8.5 faster ever until Asafa Powel and Bolt. He had a flu at US trial for Oympic games.
You by chance know the song name at 49: ?
Linford Christie was the best in the world in 1992 and 1993.
barcelona 92 was the best olympic games
Who film this olympics
What is the music, does anybody know?
Alex Set is a catalan singer .. is called peret .. the song is barcelona es poderosa
Well at 1:14 is Barcelona
SEOUL 1988
Where's volleyball, water polo, handball, women's gymnastics, canoying, judo, diving, so many sports stayed out from this movie. It should have been more diverse.
0:22~0:37
Was not this shot in1250-line HD? Should not it be in 16:9 ?
I doubt it, I suspect it was 480i which was as good as it got in 92.
Barcelona Olympics in 1992 was shot in HD at 1250/50. 480i is not even a European standard - past or present.
Thanks for that. Coming up in the U.S. System you rarely study anything European broadcast related. looks like it was also called HD-MAC. I'll read up on it HD in the 80, 90's is right up my level of fascination.
It did not go anywhere. In 1991 in the U.S. General Instrument entered the first digital HTDV system in the running, in 1994 test runs of the Grand Alliance system commenced. Same year NHK cancelled its MUSE system. Digital HDTV won. But HD-MAC had its shining moment in Albertville and Barselona in 1992, this is what I expected to see on the official Olympics channel. This video, despite offering 1080p setting, seems to be deinterlaced and upscaled from standard def footage. Such is fate of the European HD initiative: the documents, equipment and footage has not been well preserved.
Understood thanks for the history! I have a feeling that if they ever wanted to do an HD version, it would take a considerable effort because i suspect they converted them to some SD format to ease of use.
Força Barca! 😄✊
Si!
Long live aceh olympiad
RIP Vinko Šamarlić
Who is samarlic?
@@minhpham3526 he is a judo athlete
can you please have the narration of this film
but it did if you have this on DVD
I don’t have the DVD but the way it was presented I didn’t need one. beautiful film!
barcelonaaa
Freddie Mercury = greatest Olympic theme ever made
1:47
porque los de los 50s y 60s tienen una calidas mas hd que el de españa
Apparently they only had track and field at that olympics
What are you talking about? The film focuses a lot on track and field?? Is that what you meant?
@@hus390 yes, not enough focus on other sports like swimming for example
the next olympics 96 was a downgrade base on glitz and glamour
Yeah and Barcelona went into a 20 year economic stupor with vacant airports etc. complete and utter disaster
@@JJJJ-lz1vv spain the countrt did well
@@hidiyakikliuka2792 did well in what?
@@JJJJ-lz1vv hosting the game, and if didnt do well for publicity n tourism for Spain. Madrid wont bid again.
Esta película no le hace justicia al despliegue de arte y de hazañas que se vivieron en esas dos semanas.
Wow 😮
En cuanto a filme me gustó más el de México 1968 y a parte porque aquí lo que en su mayoría es atletismo y no más ganando Estados Unidos en su mayoría -.- hasta la hora con 25 minutos ponen natación y luego se nuevo atletismo
What was the exact theme of this opening ceremony? The ship on the waves with all the guys on it only made me think of the Spanish conquistadors crossing the ocean to the Americas to pillage and plunder. Wish I could understand the Spanish subtitles explaining it.
actually if you read the screen on the stadium there it says at 7:15 "el mediterraneo, mar olimpico"... the mediterrean, olympic sea... I think it's a representation of the ancient warriors arriving to Greece, to play the games...
Awesome, thanks Hugo! :)
35:30 boxing
0:01 Freddie Mercury... Eh...oh...!, but sadly, he passed away, just several months later..., after he battle with AIDS (Pneumonia)..., for Seven years...😭😭😭
*BRING MA BOI COBI BACK*
BARCELOOOOOOONAAAAA
Cadê o voleibol e o futebol
et la dream team jordan??? The best sport ever!!!
52:11
Late Freddie Mercury
Indeed, this truly was the ultimate olyimpic theme
And Barcelona didn't make any recognition to him.
London 2012 made justice on Freddie.
Keep it up to my following nations 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇬🇧
20:02 That's WHAT they Did To LUCIFER!
Why is boxing only shown during training? Is it because the Cubans won most gold medals?
Because there was more footage about athletic competitions. Boxing is important, but there is more focus in another disciplines.
During those days soviet union always top the medal tally
next film is
Teenus
No one can get on Jordan's Level Not now Not never I don't care what anyone says
What a stupid statement
Japan should've been DQ-ed in T&F 4x100m relay.
Greek Roman wrestling is pretty foo foo just sayin
Carl Lewis drug cheater
Anybody know the song from 49: minutes during the slow mo relay part??
0:47
Anybody know the song from 46:40 minutes during the slow mo relay part??
Anybody know the song from 46:40 minutes during the slow mo relay part??