Bewegungserziehung im 3. und 4. Schuljahr
Year: 1958
Country: West Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: The course covers practical and teaching methods with their methodological, pedagogical, and organizational tasks. The physical education content shown includes: jumping (jumping rope, forms of high jump); cartwheels, swinging into a handstand, hanging swings, climbing, balancing in conjunction with helping in a group, gymnastics on the horizontal bar/vault combination, swinging (rope, rope/vault combination); hopping, running, throwing, catching (including passing, dribbling, and netball). Endurance and playing skills are promoted.
Video Added: 06.03.2026

Der Schmutzfink
Year: 1954
Country: Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy
Description: Little Hans Peters only feels truly comfortable when he's allowed to throw himself into the dirt as goalkeeper during a football match. He has no understanding of washing or other forms of personal hygiene. When his family doctor, "Miss" Dr. Sturm, invites him one day to see her new home cinema, the little rascal is allowed to use her modern bathroom beforehand. An amusing post-war film promoting personal hygiene.
Video Added: 24.02.2026

Bewegungserziehung im 1. und 2. Schuljahr
Year: 1956
Country: Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: The practice and teaching methods of physical education in the 1st and 2nd grades are presented as 'education through movement' within the framework of overall teaching in elementary school. The basic forms typical for this age group have been chosen as examples of physical education in schools: running, jumping and carrying, springing, pushing, crawling, rolling, climbing and balancing, swinging up and down on equipment, throwing and catching. Building on children's play, the emphasis is on the independence of the pupils in acquiring skills and on their own creativity.
Video Added: 20.02.2026

Icelandic Children
Year: 1958
Country: Iceland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing
Description: The film, presented by the Junior Icelandic Red Cross to the American Junior Red Cross as a token of friendship in response to gifts from American Junior Red Cross, shows summer camps organized by the Icelandic Red Cross for children living in Reykjavik. The film illustrates Iceland’s landscapes, waterfalls, hot springs, etc. The summer camps allow city children to enjoy nature, outdoor activities and games, sun baths, folk songs and dances.
Video Added: 03.02.2026

Samfundets yngste

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Year: 1954
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, swimming
Description: A film about day nurseries, kindergartens and after-school centres in Denmark.
Video Added: 09.01.2026

Sommerliv i Rørvig
Year: 1957
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Footage from life in the summer house of the composer and conductor Erik Tuxen (1902-1957) and his family. Presumably from the late 1940s. Erik Tuxen was a refugee in Sweden from 1943-1945. In the film, a milk wagon appears with the inscription "guaranteed tubercle-free milk". Around 1950, tuberculosis in cattle was eradicated.
Video Added: 25.11.2025

Polioepidemien i København

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Year: 1952
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: In 1952, the largest polio epidemic hit Denmark, with Copenhagen in particular being particularly hard hit. Polio mostly affected children and young people, and most were admitted to Blegdamshospitalet in Copenhagen, which treated around 3,000 patients with an average age of 11 years between 24 July and 31 December 1952. 866 patients had paralysis of the arms or legs, and 316 had paralysis of the respiratory muscles and were therefore unable to breathe on their own. Some of them were fitted with an 'iron lung' - what we today call a respirator. Others had a tracheotomy - a hole in the throat leading directly into the windpipe. The film shows a number of technical aids for respiration and the procedure itself is demonstrated.
During the polio epidemic in 1952, Blegdamshospitalet became world-famous for introducing ventilator treatment to combat respiratory paralysis.
Video Added: 21.11.2025

Wild River Safari
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Wild River Safari is a short 1954 documentary/travelogue from Castle Films that follows an expedition upriver into the heart of Africa.
Video Added: 11.11.2025

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