Sundhedsvæsenet

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Year: 1939
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check
Description: Greenland's health service in 1939. 10 doctors attend to the country's 18,000 inhabitants, partly on trips by motorboats and sleds, partly in 14 hospitals spread over the country, assisted by 16 Danish and 100 Greenlandic nurses. All medical care, medicine and hospital stays are free. The annual expenses of the Greenlandic health service are approx. half a million kroner. At the hospital, the hospital corridors are cleaned. Breakfast is prepared by nursing students. Hallway A Danish doctor gives vaccinations while curious people look on. A doctor traveling by motorboat on the Umanakfjord. A nurse arrives at a settlement. The nurse performs a so-called 'lung breath' against tuberculosis on patients. 2-3 dentists are sent around the country every year to practice dentistry. Life at the children's sanatorium in Umanak. Children are bathed in quartz light.
Video Added: 26.12.2023

Frk. Wagners instruktionsfilm
Year: 1953
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl, medical check
Description: The film shows part of the physical treatment of polio: Warm packs, so-called Kennedy packs, are given to relieve the pain and prevent contractures. Concentrated compresses and manipulation of the thorax (chest) are given to make it smoother and thereby facilitate respiration. The packs are changed until the skin is red. Manipulation is given of the entire thorax. A very important step in the treatment of contracture strencks. When the contracture first occurs, the muscles' working capacity is significantly reduced. Therefore, the stretches are started as early as possible, but only until the pain limit and everything after prior warming up. In order that stretching and fixing can take place as correctly as possible, there should be two physiotherapists about the patient. One to fix the patient and one to pull. Stimulation of muscles is performed by the physiotherapist as a light vibration of the muscle group in one direction of movement. Another important part of the treatment is balance exercises. In order to achieve as correct a gait as possible, all patients, regardless of the degree of paralysis, should do balance exercises, i.e. put the weight equally on both legs, keep the pelvis in place and have a good posture. These exercises are also done with two physiotherapists.
Video Added: 08.12.2023

Eventyret om julemærket

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Year: 1956
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp, swimming
Description: Since 1904, a special Christmas stamp has been published every year, which you can affix to your postal items in connection with the Christmas post. The sale of Christmas tags is the basis for the establishment and operation of the Christmas tag homes around Denmark. The purpose of the homes is to house and help vulnerable and particularly needy children. The film shows various recordings from the daily life of seven homes, including Hobro, Juelsminde (closed in 1956), Fjordmark at Flensborg Fjord, Holbølls Minde in Svendborg, Lindersvold, Mørkøv and Kildemose at Frederiksværk. Children's Day consists of, among other things, of teaching, doctor's visits, playing and having fun in the garden with pets, communal dining, light field and garden work, walks and beach trips. At Christmas time, the children frolic in the snow, and on Christmas Eve they dance around the Christmas tree and receive presents from Santa Claus.
Video Added: 07.11.2023

Balletbørn

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Date: 22.12.1991
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Keywords: ballet
Description: For 16 years, DR-TV has followed 24 children who in 1974 and 75 were accepted as students at one of Denmark's most special schools: the Royal Ballet School. In six broadcasts, we follow the children's everyday life to see how many achieve the common goal: to become a royal ballet dancer. The first broadcast depicts the entrance exams, for which around 500 children had signed up.
Video Added: 03.11.2023

Livet på julemærkehjemmene

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Year: 1958
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, summer camp
Description: Peter is a lonely boy who does not thrive in his everyday life. His mother applies to the Christmas Label Committee for a stay. The story of the Christmas tree homes is told; the creation of the first Christmas stamp home in 1903, sale of the Christmas stamp that runs the 6 Christmas stamp homes around the country, and how everyday life goes for the many children.
Video Added: 31.10.2023

Fra Dansk Røde Kors' folkekuranstalt ved Hald
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: A day at the children's ward. Treatment of polio in stage 2. The children's muscles are weakened after the paralysis. The task of the post-treatment is to train the muscles up to normal strength again. The treatment consists of a number of exercises, including in the pool and tub, lying movement exercises on a bench or in the hospital bed and strength training with machines. Some get electrodes on their body to stimulate the muscles. When the children are not in treatment, there is time for activities such as braiding, weaving, teaching, knitting, doll play, etc. Year unknown.
Video Added: 17.10.2023

Digtere, divaer og dogmebrødre

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Year: 2001
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: Cultural chronicle in eight episodes, which tells the varied and entertaining story of Danish cultural life, from "Die Asta" to Dr. Dante and Lars von Trier.
Video Added: 05.09.2023

Familien - om bolig- og levevilkår i Bombay

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Year: 1974
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: The Pherwani family belongs to the middle class. They live in a block of flats in the northern part of Bombay. There are four children, and the mother is a stay-at-home mom. The father has a good school education and a trusted position as a foreman in a large industrial company, so the children - even the girls - can afford a good schooling. This family has security, housing and knowledge unlike the vast majority of Bombay residents. The film belongs together with two other films from India, 'The Village - about a casteless society' and 'The Farmer - about a collective family in the countryside'.
Video Added: 01.09.2023

På skolebænken med Åse og alle de andre
Year: 2014
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: What did an ordinary school day look like in the Gentofte of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s? What did you learn at school while Stauning founded the welfare state and the Conservatives settled in well in Gentofte Municipality? We follow Åse and her schoolmates at Mosegårdsskolen in Vangede in the 1950s. We get a glimpse into everyday life at Gentofte's many schools with morning singing, lessons, gymnastics and packed lunches. The film provides an insight into school development through a significant part of Denmark's history.
Video Added: 28.07.2023

Dagligliv på julemærkehjemmene

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Year: 1952
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, summer camp, swimming
Description: Film about the six Christmas mark homes in Denmark, where over 1,000 vulnerable and especially needy children are helped each year. The film opens with b/w footage of poor children in Copenhagen backyards. Then a series of everyday pictures in color from the homes Lindersvold near Præstø, Hobro, Fjordmark near Kollund, Mørkøv, Kildemose near Ølsted and Holbølls Minde near Svendborg are shown. Also b/w footage from King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid's visit to Hobro in 1949. The year of the film is uncertain. Many of the recordings can also be seen in 'Julemærkefilmen 1952'.
Video Added: 18.07.2023