Västerås 1937, del 2
Year: 1937
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: At the end of the 1930s, Västerås was a city of contrasts. On the one hand, an old city with aging buildings, on the other hand, one of Sweden's most modern cities with large, rapidly growing export industries in constant need of new labor. Inspired by how other cities worked, the rulers in Västerås decided that the city should be properly documented. Both for the Westerners of the time and for future generations. A photography and film committee was commissioned to have a film made where everything of importance would be documented, they wanted to create a period document from 1937. The committee included Sven Drakenberg, then curator at the Västmanland county museum, among others. Just over thirty-five years after the premiere, he voiced the film's narration. Committed and initiated, he lets us meet people and environments in 1930s Västerås. Because the film was a so-called archive film, they did not have the same requirements for entertainment value as if it had been a feature film. Despite that, the film became something of a box office hit at the Röda Kvarn cinema. With its premiere on December 5, 1938, it ran in double performances every night for a week and was seen by just over 3,000 people.
Video Added: 20.12.2020

Tinti - riktigt kul i badet
Year: 2016
Country: Sweden
Section: commercials
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: Fun, natural bathtime play products by "Tinti" in Germany (NaturFarben). Tinti natural bathwather colors are distributed in the USA by Challenge & Fun.
Video Added: 10.12.2020

Skolpojkarne bada
Year: 1912
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: Swimming of boys on a lake.
Video Added: 06.10.2020

Kalmar Scoutkars sommarlager 1945
Year: 1945
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, summer camp
Description: The original is a 16mm silent film that was restored in 1982 and the film was digitized in April 2014.
Video Added: 12.08.2020

Badsvep fran 60-talet
Date: 06.06.2009
Country: Sweden
Section: reportage
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, sunbathing
Description: SVT
During the 1960s, TV used to do so-called "bathing wipes" over the bathing weather around the country.
Video Added: 07.06.2020

Swimming in the Oresund
Year: 1950
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl, swimming
Video Added: 31.05.2020

The Swedish Institute for Racial Biology
Date: 02.06.2011
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The State Institute for Racial Biology was a Swedish governmental research institute founded in 1922 with the stated purpose of studying eugenics and human genetics. It was located in Uppsala and as a governmental agency, it was the world's first of its kind. Its first head was Herman Lundborg.

For his doctoral dissertation, Lundborg had researched a form of genetic progressive myoclonic epilepsy first described by Heinrich Unverricht in 1891. In addition to giving an account of the disease, he traced an affected family back to the 18th century, an analysis unique for that time. He concluded that the family had genetically degenerated because of unwise marriages.

Under his leadership, the institute began gathering statistics and photographs to map the racial make-up of about 100,000 Swedish people. This research later became one of the foundations of a eugenic program of the Swedish government, which consisted of both voluntary and involuntary sterilisation of persons with negative genetic characteristics. The program was started in 1935 and lasted until 1975.
Video Added: 31.05.2020