Happy Schooldays
Year: 1932
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing
Keywords: Pathe
Description: "Here's a French babies' school, where they believe in the open-air treatment." L/S of large group of children sitting in the open air. "A good start - a drink for thirsty little ones." C/U of woman pouring liquid from a bottle into little metal cups held by the children. C/U of a group of five children - they all wear the same romper suits and hats.
"Lessons for the puzzled ones..." High angle of group of children at a table. L/S of children sitting at tables, little girl walks around giving out pencils. C/U of boy drawing or practising his writing. C/U of boy with head in his hands. "Diversions of all sorts to build up little bodies..." L/S of children doing ring-a-ring-a-roses holding hands. They put their hands in the air and clap them. Cute shot of the kids lying on their backs and kicking their legs in the air - some kind of keep fit exercise. The children then do "wheelbarrows" - propelling each other around the garden.
M/S of the children sitting in three lines hanging onto each others ankles and rowing (like the "Oops Upside Your Head" dance so popular in the early 1980s!) C/U of a naked girl having her chest measured. The nurse or teacher is telling the girl to take deep breaths. C/U of two little rascals. L/S of two women watching over the children as they all lie on the ground for a snooze. "And, of course, a rest, well-earned - whether on the ground..." Cute shot of some of the kids dozing. "...or the regular siesta." M/S of some of the other children sleeping on canvas beds. C/U of one child asleep. C/U of another child, lying on its tummy with its bum in the air! Cute.
Video Added: 23.08.2020

No Longer Alone (1961)
Year: 1961
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Documentary about special schools for blind children with additional handicaps.
Video Added: 17.08.2020

Bulgarian Refugees (1948)
Year: 1948
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Sofia, Bulgaria. Abducted Greek children reach Sofia for upbringing on the East European plan.
Greek refugee children disembarking from train in Sofia, Bulgaria. Several shots of the refugee children. Little boy carrying his younger sister. Bulgaria Red Cross nurses with refugee children. Doctor and nurse examine refugee children. Refugee boy has hair cropped. Two young girl refugees. Emaciated boy refugee is washed. Child crying. Nurses washing children. Nurses putting clean clothes on refugee children. Old woman refugee with children in her lap looking on. Refugee boy feeding younger brother from enamel mug. Two cropped haired boys eating at the table, pan to another boy.
Video Added: 15.08.2020

Broken Wings (1950-1959)
Year: 1950
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Cottages in an idyllic rural setting of large trees. Kittens playing. Newly hatched Chicks next to eggs in their nest. Below a little girl with her legs in irons and a club foot (Betty) picks up a fallen chick. She takes it to "Sister", and together they go inside. Betty nursing her doll remembers how she arrived at the home.
A train arrives and Betty is lifted into a stroller. Other handicapped children play in the garden. Flash back to the slums they have come from. The children sit in their beds in a ward playing with toys and dolls. WS chalets. School activities. Resting on stretchers. Babies in prams. Children going to bed and taking a shower.
The children are being led into church, and listen to a sermon. Children playing and pushing prams, playing sports and chess. Ex-boy working as a type setter. Printers at work. Magazine cover showing two Brownie's with the title "Children".
The narrator, Leslie Banks, with Betty sitting on his lap talks to camera. He tells of the great work of the National Children's Home, and Betty says "Thank you very much"
Video Added: 13.08.2020

Kalmar Scoutkars sommarlager 1945
Year: 1945
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, summer camp
Description: The original is a 16mm silent film that was restored in 1982 and the film was digitized in April 2014.
Video Added: 12.08.2020

Leirielamaa
Year: 1964
Country: Finland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Video Added: 09.08.2020

Fifth quarter
Year: 2004
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, summer camp
Description: A film about summer vacations in the pioneer camp NII-160 ("Istok"), circa 1970s.
Video Added: 07.08.2020

Scout Camp
Year: 1941
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, summer camp, swimming
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Various shots of scouts gathered together outdoors. Various shots as they cook in a field oven and take food out of a makeshift larder / cooler covered with leaves. M/S's as they sit and eat outside. C/U of one boy eating a sausage. They wash the dishes and set up a drying rack, three boys nudge each other as they watch. Various shots as all the boys swim in the outdoor pool. One boy stands on a hill and signals to other scouts with flags. A scoutmaster points out landmarks to a boy as they look over the scenery.
Video Added: 03.08.2020

Busigny Village for Homeless Children
Year: 1950
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: Orphanage in France, 1950s/
Video Added: 03.08.2020

Lykkebo Skole 1950
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check
Description: Film about Lykkebo School in Valby.
Video Added: 28.07.2020