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

En ny by blev til

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Year: 1975
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Based on the construction of Albertslund Kulturhus, the development of Albertslund Municipality from bare ground to a modern suburb with nature, a station center, shops in the city center, kindergartens, schools, a moped track, a swimming pool and the large industrial area - the workplaces - with cluster houses and apartment buildings right nearby. The film follows the many phases of the construction of the cultural center and the decisions behind the urban development in general.
Video Added: 03.06.2025

Denmark - A Loving Embrace

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Year: 1973
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: The film gives an impression of the people living in Denmark by interviews with the danes. Also American visitors are asked about their opinion of the country and its inhabitants. The danish social welfare program is in focus. The traditional tourist attractions though have not been overlooked.
Video Added: 09.05.2025

Et lille Besøg hos Familien Soya

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Year: 1944
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, girl
Description: Photographer Jørgen Gregersen visits author and playwright Carl Erik Soya and his family in Kgs. Lyngby. The film is in two parts. The first part was filmed in the summer of 1941. Here Soya is seen in the garden with his wife and youngest daughter, Maj. Soya's two other children, William and Hyben, are also seen. The second part was filmed in the summer of 1944. Here the contrast is shown between a war-torn Denmark during the occupation and the idyllic family life in the garden of the Soya family, where they enjoy the warmth. The summer also offers a visit to the author's colleague Cai M. Woel and a trip to Dyrehavsbakken.
Video Added: 02.05.2025