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Series
London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games: Still Photographs...
Catalogue reference: LOC 5
What's it about?
LOC 5
The series contains official photographs and films produced by or on behalf of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), documenting progress on the construction of facilities, official openings and significant...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LOC 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games: Still Photographs and Films
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Date (When the record was created)
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2005-2012
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains official photographs and films produced by or on behalf of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), documenting progress on the construction of facilities, official openings and significant events. It includes aerial photographs.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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The summary descriptions were provided by the organising committee and were originally used for reference purposes
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The records were arranged under a filing structure with 29 folders. They consist of the following formats: 3111 JPEG files, 2 TIFF files, 5 spreadsheets, 28 PDFs and 388 films (MOV, WMV, MP4 and MPG files).
References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Not Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2005-2012
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3534 digital record(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2013 London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Sports
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals anticipated
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The still photographs were created by the Editorial Services Team of the Communications and Public Affairs Department. This Team drafted, edited and managed the production of all London 2012 publications and web content. They were also the Team to turn to for images and films, and internal communications, including content on the intranet (?The Knowledge?) and the weekly e-newsletter ?Inside Track?
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14519134/
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