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Title: AT & T Records of the Olympic Torch Relay,
Date (inclusive): 1983-1984
Collection number: 1450
Creator:
AT & T
Extent:
54 boxes (27 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: The 1984 Olympic torch relay, sponsored and documented by AT & T, began in New York City on May 8, 1984 and ended in the Los
Angeles Coliseum on July 28, 1984 at the opening of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. The collection consists of a torch, motion
picture film scripts, videotapes, press releases, maps, clothing, correspondence, and files regarding the relay.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold
the copyright.
[Identification of item], AT & T Records of the Olympic Torch Relay (Collection 1450). Department of Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1988.
The 1984 Olympic torch relay, sponsored and documented by AT & T, began in New York City on May 8, 1984 and ended in the Los
Angeles Coliseum on July 28, 1984 at the opening of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games; the flame traveled over 9,000 miles during
an eighty-two day journey, and an estimated 30 million viewers lined the route; Rafer Johnson lit the cauldron upon the flame's
arrival at the Coliseum.
Collection consists of a torch, motion picture film scripts, videotapes, press releases, maps, clothing, correspondence, and
files regarding Olympic torch relay for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Includes approximately 5,000 color transparencies,
several hundred black and white photographs, and a copy of Mickey Herscowitz's book, One with the flame. Files from Telephone
Pioneers of America related to the relay route are in the collection. Also includes 53 hours of 16mm film footage used to
produce videos of relay.
Arranged in the following series:
- One with the flame files.
- Videotapes.
- Operations.
- Clippings.
- Photographs, slides, and contact sheets.
- Carry the fire files.
- Objects for display.
- Films.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
AT & T--Archives.
Telephone Pioneers of America.
Olympic torch relay--United States--Archival resources.
Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee Records (Collection 1403)
. Available at the Department of Special Collections, UCLA.