Raw footage for the Spy Hop documentary, "Messages: 2002 Olympic Diary", 2002

Item — video: 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Various shots of downtown from a moving vehicle:
"Welcome to Salt Lake City" Budweiser sign
Antique store
Salt Lake City and County Building in background as vehicle drives east on 300 South (?)
Maverick Gas Station
"A Semester to Remember: Stay on track with transit" sign at the University of Utah
"Are you in the dark...about where to park? Don't cry and wail...just take light rail" sign at the University of Utah
Field house with Rice Eccles Stadium in the background at the University of Utah
University of Utah Bookstore
Global Justice flier at the University of Utah
"Freedom of speech at the Olympics?" flier at the University of Utah
"The Games are comin'...get the spirit...U Winterfest 2002" sign at the University of Utah
Red Olympic banner flags out side of the Marriot library at the University of Utah
"South Campus Drive Closed" and "Detour" signs at the University of Utah
Approximately twenty blue Olympic banner flags outside of Rice Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah
"Road Closed Ahead" sign at the University of Utah
Budweiser billboards with the Shilo hotel in the background, downtown Salt Lake City
Budweiser World Party at the Galivan Center logo, zoom out to the billboard in front of the Shilo hotel
Newspaper vending machine decorated with Olympics posters on Main Street, downtown Salt Lake
Photo of a woman representing the curling event covering the Wells Fargo building then zoom out to see another one on the Marriot Hotel next to it of cross country skiers (building wrap)
Coke vending machine with Salt Lake 2002 logo on it at the ZCMI Center
Men in an event tent constructing large wooden boxes and painting them white, one has black dots on it to resemble a giant die (singular for dice)
Salt Lake City and County Building grounds (Before the start of the Olympics?)
Picnic tables on the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
Toilet and urinal, apparently broken and removed from the Salt Lake City and County Building and placed in a junk pile by a parking lot
A man installs a toilet paper dispenser in a bathroom stall
Shot of a sculpture of a Native American with the Salt Lake City and County Building in the background
Man in an event tent constructing large wooden boxes and painting them white, one has black dots on it to resemble a giant die (singular for dice) listens to rock music and begins to strum his paint roller as if it were a guitar
Men constructing the Medals Plaza stage at the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
People milling around on the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
Flags from different countries next to stakes which read "May peace be in New Zealand" for example
Two men unrolling a large spool of portable walkway on the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
Men working in scaffolding on the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
Teens holding flags around the peace stakes on the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
Mayor Rocky Anderson cuts ribbon at the dedication for the Olympic pavilion on the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
Teens holding flags around the peace stakes shout out the country name in the dedication ceremony for the Olympic pavilion on the Salt Lake City and County Building grounds
Footage taken from a vehicle on 500 South as vehicle passes the Little America hotel
Footage of a truck with TVs on the sides showing rodeo cruelty with signs which read "Cruelty is not in the Olympic spirit"
TV Coca-Cola billboard on a street
Signs on the University of Utah campus which read "We're the host...the world's our guest...enjoy the games...let's show them our best" on which someone crossed out "enjoy" and wrote "fuck" in marker
People wait in a hallway
A young man talks on a cell phone
A lounge with plush theater chairs against the wall in an event tent, room appears to be under construction in some areas. Art and murals are around the tent and it appears to be the "dice tent" seen earlier on the tape
Black police sport utility vehicles (SUVs) parked outside of a building
A man doing a sound check in front of a sheet of particle board painted black

Dates

2002

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