Het leven van den inlander in de dessa
Year: 1913
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, swimming
Description: A documentary about village life on a river in Java in the Dutch East Indies in the 1910s. The river is used as a playground for children, and as a washing place for food, horses, and buffaloes.
Director: J.C. Lamster.
Video Added: 04.11.2025

Kinderen van Suriname
Year: 1968
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: An educational film or documentary series released in 1968, depicting daily life, culture, and the various population groups of Suriname at that time.
Video Added: 28.10.2025

Van Brokken en Afval - deel 5
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 5.
Distributed by Amateurfilm Platform.
Video Added: 22.08.2025

Van Brokken en Afval - deel 4
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 4. Compilation of films and raw footage from the period 1927-1939. Better than a bathhouse: sailing on a ditch, children in a boat and in the water, a boy in a kayak, boys diving and swimming. The Iron Man near 's-Hertogenbosch: a small lake with a sailboat. Launching a balloon in the stadium in Amsterdam: a huge balloon with a man on a basket underneath it in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. A practical school desk for outdoor education, Cergnat 1927, Switzerland: children with a pack on their back that can be folded out into a table and chair, lessons in the open air. Zaandijk in 1920: no footage, only the title on screen. Free and order exercises at a school in Switzerland: schoolchildren doing exercises on a sports field. The youth of Kattenburg have their own swimming pool: sign Groote Kattenburgerstraat - Centrum, Mariniersplein, children in the water, adults watch from a bridge, children dive from a bridge, boys on a floating raft. They have a magnificent diving tower: boys dive from a bridge, play and hang under the bridge, children get dressed. Shot put: boys compete in a shot put competition (Switzerland). Dikkie tries to catch fish: a boy tries to catch fish by hand. Ice rink in Bloemendaal 1931: old and young skate, including in a train and swaying, a woman does a pirouette and falls. An unusual dancer in an unusual setting, Cergnat, Switzerland 1927: a girl dances on a carpet while other children watch and applaud. The Doorwerd wave pool near Arnhem 1935. The pool empty: shots of an empty pool. Full: a swimming pool filled with water and visitors. The first waves: waves in the pool with swimmers and bathers, people holding on to ropes stretched across the pool. Make yourself comfortable: a boy doing exercises with a physiotherapist. Triplets in the stadium: a cycling race with three-person bicycles in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

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Video Added: 15.08.2025

Van Brokken en Afval - deel 3
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 3. Compilation of films and raw footage from the period 1927-1939. Children love to play near and with water: children playing with water and sand on the beach, a boy sailing a toy sailboat on a string, boys fishing, a boy playing with a tub in the water, a boy playing with a dog in the water, a boy sailing on a raft, children with shorts pulled up in the water, children playing with sand, children on the beach, a water fight in a swimming pool. Barrels are checked for leaks: a man fills a barrel with hot water using a bucket and a funnel, a barrel is shaken back and forth to clean it, the barrel is hit, a leak is caulked with cotton wool. Filled with hot grease: a barrel is filled and rolled to a boat, a fully loaded boat sails. A sprinkler keeps the barrel cool: a boat with a sprinkler and wet barrels. A view of a gallery from Dr. Rollier in Leysin, Switzerland, 19..: children in rows of beds in the sun. A stretch bandage: a boy in a bed with a leg in a splint. Ice hockey rink in Haarlem, 19..: men's ice hockey game with an audience. A jump over 10 boys: a man dives over a row of ten boys after a jump from a springboard, landing on a cushion. Bleeding from the ulnar artery (high sling): applying a bandage and sling to a man. When Amsterdam's youth are hot: children playing in a shallow pool, children on a sandy beach near a residential area, a small bridge over the water, children eating ice cream.

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Video Added: 08.08.2025

Van Brokken en Afval - deel 1
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 1. Compilation of films and raw footage from the period 1927-1939. My Hans: amateur filmmaker Dick Laan and his jackdaw, Hans. Horse polo: a horse polo match in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. Young anglers: boys in shorts, some wearing ties, fishing with a fishing rod. A boy baits his hook and slides the bamboo sections of his rod together. Some footage from the film of the Hoog-Blaricum children's sanatorium in Laren in 1930: a nurse; boys and girls in beds in the ward and outdoors, children being washed, doctors examining patients, children sunbathing. The outdoor school: boys and girls set up chairs and tables on the terrace and receive lessons. The kitchen: staff serving food from large pots onto plates, children at the table and in bed during meals. A girl being fed.

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Video Added: 01.08.2025

Types des Indes et de Ceylon
Year: 1913
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Short registration of the indigenous population in what was then British India and Ceylon.
Recordings of life in India. Successively images of children, of the inhabitants of 'Tamoul', of a fortune teller, of 'kandyons', of a group of Indian men who eat the national food 'carry' and of 'Cinghalaise' women.
Video Added: 20.06.2025

Skoallereiskes Amelan - Oranjewald - Jan de Roos, 1954, 1958
Year: 1954
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: School trip to Ameland. White farm on Ameland. Children busy in the camping farm. Eating together. Children take a bike ride across the island. Cycling through the dunes. Children playing on the beach. Cycling to the boat. Images of the upper deck on the boat.
School trip to Oranjewoud. Including images of the slide. Climbing the lookout tower. (in color:) Parent with child to school for the first time. Child is greeted by the teacher. Children in the school desk.
(in black and white) Jan de Roos comes to school (October 4, 1954 or 1958). Children walk with loaves of bread on which "October 4 Dierendei" is written (= animal day).
Video Added: 13.06.2025

De lange hete zomer
Year: 1975
Country: Netherlands
Section: reportage
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The long hot summer in Netherlands.
Video Added: 23.05.2025

Het zeehuis - Centraal genootschap kindervacantiekolonies
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Description: The sea house - Central society children's holiday colonies.
The film of Dick Laan is not entirely finished due to the pre-mobilization on August 24, 1939. The sea house had to be evacuated immediately.
Video Added: 27.12.2024