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UCLA Catalog Record ID
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Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: AT & T Records of the Olympic Torch Relay
Creator:
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1450
Physical Description:
27 Linear Feet
(54 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1983-1984
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 of Material:
English
.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
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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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1988.
Preferred Citation
[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.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Organization and Arrangement
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.
Related Material
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Olympic torch relay -- United States -- Archives.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company--Archives.
Telephone Pioneers of America.