Vana - Jag ska berätta om Vana
Year: 1975
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: Eight-year-old Vana lives with her mother and siblings in a slum in the Brazilian city of Recife. They live in a wooden shack that stands on stilts above a boggy ground. Vana tells how life happens in their home. She sweeps the floor of the cramped dwelling, dusts, and helps her mother do laundry. The mother earns the money by washing the clothes of a wealthy family. Vana's job is to go to the pump to fetch water. The women in the other huts also try to earn a living this way. Vana talks about her favorite games, she is seen jumping rope and playing with dolls. In the morning, her mother gets her ready for school, she puts on her school clothes and heads off to school. She is seen in the schoolyard playing with other children and in the classroom doing writing exercises. The Swedish film crew invites Vana and her girlfriend for a trip to the seaside. Vana gets the first ice cream of her life and sings a song in front of the camera.
Video Added: 12.05.2026

Saint Barthélemy - vår sista koloni
Year: 1962
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: A film by Sten Nordensköld.
Video Added: 27.02.2026

It Could Happen to You
Year: 1960
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: This film shows how two boys came to join the Junior Red Cross. One is injured in a car accident and goes to hospital; his friend, left alone, meets members of the Junior Red Cross and decides to enroll. At a Junior Red Cross Centre and youth camp he learns about Junior Red Cross’ many activities, then encourages his friend to join when he leaves hospital.
Video Added: 13.02.2026

I torkans och Svältens spår
Year: 1972
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy
Description: Swedish Red Cross, "Drought in West Africa"
Video Added: 16.12.2025

Kortfilm om Göteborg i äldre tider
Year: 1930
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Ca. 1930.
Video Added: 30.09.2025

Simdynor av säv
Year: 1946
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Nordic Museum's cultural history films no. 121. Recorded by the Nordic Museum in Norra Rörum parish, Skåne in 1946. Direction and photography: Albert Eskeröd.
Video Added: 04.04.2025

Halsingborg, staden kring Karnan
Year: 1950
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: A portrait of Sweden's fifth city, the pearl of the Strait, in a time when faith in the future was proud and certain of victory.
Video Added: 25.03.2025

Sjön där Fride Magnusson drunknade
Year: 1992
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Video Added: 14.02.2025

Guldkorn Från 1945
Year: 1945
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: The newsreel footage from 1945. This was broadcast on SVT on December 27, 1995.
Video Added: 10.01.2025

Från glada laxars land

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Year: 1939
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: Pictures from Halmstad, including from the bicycle factory where they make pedal horses with hand-painted speed lines. As well as pictures from Laholm and Tylösand, where the residents live on equal parts agriculture and summer tourists. And the summer tourists are equal parts salty baths and cute girls.
Video Added: 29.11.2024