- Title: Equinox: The Siege Of Barcelona
- Date: 16th August 1992
- Summary: Television documentary giving a behind-the-scenes view of how the city of Barcelona prepared for and coped with the XXVth Olympic Games. Changes to the city included a new ring road,slums flattened to make way for the Olympic village,hospitals were renewed,fresh telecommunications facilities were constructed and Olympic stadia built. The programme looks at how police,traffic controllers and other local bodies devised schemes for the smooth running of the city during the Games. Particular emphasis is given to the media coverage of the Games: the huge organisation behind television coverage for individual countries and advances in the coverage of individual sports,following the Olympic Committee's encouragement of technical innovation: judging split-second distances in the 100 metres,the new points system awarded by the push of a button in the boxing,the rapid transmission of information on `faults' during the white-water canoeing events,and the camera-trolley devised for underwater tracking shots of the swimming events.
- Description:THE ENGINEERING,INFRASTRUCTURE,TECHNOLOGY,AND SECURITY PLANNING WHICH WILL HAVE GONE INTO THE 1992 OLYMPICS. FOR TX ON THE SUNDAY IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GAMES
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Unspecified
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:16/08/1992
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s