Femø 1971

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Year: 1974
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: The film consists of conversations among women on the first feminist camp. We receive a strong impression of their freshly gained curiosity and openness towards themselves and each other as they try to understand and analyse their lives as women. Through the film runs as an undercurrent that the aftermath of the camp will be new feminist relationships.
Video Added: 04.12.2025

Sommerliv i Rørvig
Year: 1957
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Footage from life in the summer house of the composer and conductor Erik Tuxen (1902-1957) and his family. Presumably from the late 1940s. Erik Tuxen was a refugee in Sweden from 1943-1945. In the film, a milk wagon appears with the inscription "guaranteed tubercle-free milk". Around 1950, tuberculosis in cattle was eradicated.
Video Added: 25.11.2025

Polioepidemien i København

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Year: 1952
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: In 1952, the largest polio epidemic hit Denmark, with Copenhagen in particular being particularly hard hit. Polio mostly affected children and young people, and most were admitted to Blegdamshospitalet in Copenhagen, which treated around 3,000 patients with an average age of 11 years between 24 July and 31 December 1952. 866 patients had paralysis of the arms or legs, and 316 had paralysis of the respiratory muscles and were therefore unable to breathe on their own. Some of them were fitted with an 'iron lung' - what we today call a respirator. Others had a tracheotomy - a hole in the throat leading directly into the windpipe. The film shows a number of technical aids for respiration and the procedure itself is demonstrated.
During the polio epidemic in 1952, Blegdamshospitalet became world-famous for introducing ventilator treatment to combat respiratory paralysis.
Video Added: 21.11.2025

Børn på hospital

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Year: 1980
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Some children experience the hospital as a strange, scary world. The purpose of this film is to explain and thereby de-dramatize some of the situations that arise when children come to the hospital. The film gives a brief description of the emergency room, which is often children's first encounter with the hospital. Then, Henrik, aged five, is followed - he is admitted to the hospital for an inguinal hernia. He is followed through the hospital's everyday life, examinations, surgery and finally discharge. The film also shows other children being examined and treated. The film can be used in kindergartens and the first grades of school.
Video Added: 21.10.2025

Filmdagbog fra Thy

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Year: 1972
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: In the summer of 1970, the association ‘Det Ny Samfund’ acquired a large piece of bare land in North Jutland and invited anyone who wanted to go to summer camp and free expression. We are in the golden age of youth rebellion, with lots of energy and creativity, and where everything is suddenly possible. In the film we follow the story of two friends from day to day, experienced through a small 8 mm narrow-film camera and a tape recorder. Thylejren is the starting point, but there are also detours to Switzerland and Sweden.
Video Added: 17.10.2025

Finlandia

Year: 1973
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: On a trip around Finland with seasoned travel photographer Axel Hald-Christensen. The trip starts on board the ferry Finlandia. On the way, the travel photographer and his travel companions pass Lahti, Mikkeli and Savonlinna, where he films sights such as Olavinlinna (Olofsborg) and the Kerimaki Church. Along the way, they stay overnight at campsites and both sail and swim in the many lakes and rivers. The landscape is characterized by forest and water. The trip also passes Helsinki and the various sights that the capital offers: the iconic station building, the market square, open-air theater and folk dancing in Finnish folk costumes. In addition, there are also recordings from, among other places, the Temple Square Church and the statue of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who is considered Finland's national poet. Finally, the trip heads home again with Finlandia.
Video Added: 07.10.2025

Wangeniafiskeri

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Year: 1973
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: In the Democratic Republic of Zaire (formerly Congo), the Wangenia people live at the Tshopo Falls (formerly Stanley Falls). When fishing in the river, they exploit the differences between low and high water levels for a kind of trick fishing from scaffolding built out in the water.
Video Added: 23.09.2025

Historisk film fra Klintebjerg Børnehjem 1957-59
Year: 1959
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The Askegaard family, by Hans Askegaard and his son, Søren Askegaard, both of Odense, Denmark, have made this historical film from Klintebjerg Orphanage. Hans Askegaard's parents, Lisel and Erik Askegaard, took office as the headmaster of Klintebjerg Orphanage on January 1, 1937. At that time, Hans Askegaard, who was born in 1929, was eight years old. The film was filmed by Hans Askegaard and his brother Klaus Askegaard in the years 1957-59 at and around Klintebjerg Orphanage, and there is also footage from the orphanage's summer excursion to the North Sea. The film is commented on by Hans Askegaard and Søren Askegaard along the way. A big and heartfelt thank you to the Askegaard family for making this film available to us, and thus to the general public.
Video Added: 26.08.2025

I kø foran livet

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Year: 1958
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: How can we utilize the great resource that the large cohorts born during the war are? The film shows that the conditions for solving the problem are good. The large companies have apprenticeship schools, where the young people receive a thorough education before they enter production fully qualified in the last year of their apprenticeship. Many professions have apprentice preschools, from which the masters receive students who, even before they become apprentices, know the most elementary things in the profession they are entering. The perspective is given to Asia and India, where millions of people live on the hunger line. Giant open-air schools are established, where adult natives struggle to learn to read.
Video Added: 29.07.2025

Vore mindste Københavnere

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Year: 1941
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Depiction of what the public sector does for infants and preschool children. One of the aims of the early intervention is to keep infant mortality down. Last year, the Mothers' Aid helped around 2,500 women, including running a home for expectant mothers. Copenhagen has 55 health visitors who travel around and visit newborns under the age of 1. She checks for illnesses and helps to get breastfeeding started. Approximately 10,000 children are born in Copenhagen each year. In addition, Copenhagen has 25 childcare centres spread across the city. 150 nurseries, asylums and kindergartens are also spread across the capital.
Video Added: 06.06.2025