Børn på hospital

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Year: 1980
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Some children experience the hospital as a strange, scary world. The purpose of this film is to explain and thereby de-dramatize some of the situations that arise when children come to the hospital. The film gives a brief description of the emergency room, which is often children's first encounter with the hospital. Then, Henrik, aged five, is followed - he is admitted to the hospital for an inguinal hernia. He is followed through the hospital's everyday life, examinations, surgery and finally discharge. The film also shows other children being examined and treated. The film can be used in kindergartens and the first grades of school.
Video Added: 21.10.2025

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 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.

Distributed by Amateurfilm Platform.
Video Added: 08.08.2025

Dushaka Kubaho
Year: 1962
Country: Congo
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, medical check
Description: Filmed in Kivu Province, Congo, this documentary presents various aspects of the relief action undertaken in March 1962 to assist some 60,000 Tutsi refugees who sought asylum there after fleeing Rwanda in December 1961. The film discusses why the Tutsi refugees fled Rwanda, and shows the resettlement of refugees on land made available to them by the Congolese Government: clearing; planting; construction of huts in a new village named Bibwe; distribution of food and seeds.
Presented by Red Cross Red Crescent historic film collection.
Video Added: 05.08.2025

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

O vazhnosti privivok ot kori detyam
Year: 1986
Country: Soviet Union
Section: medicine
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Fragment of a newsreel: "Health #78".
2nd story "Measles is dangerous". Doctors examine children with measles in their office. Lab technicians work on creating a measles vaccine. Nurses vaccinate children against measles in a treatment room. Schoolchildren in a classroom at one of the schools.
Video Added: 18.07.2025

Turkish Red Crescent's Pendik Youth Camp
Year: 1950
Country: Turkey
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, summer camp, swimming
Description: The film describes the Turkish Red Crescent’s Pendik camp for disadvantaged children. This summer health camp was established in 1946 by the Turkish Junior Red Crescent. Activities of the camp include: physical examinations, games, sports, and entertainment such as singing, dancing and enjoying the spectacle of a dancing bear.
Video Added: 04.07.2025

Embarrassing Bodies

SC 2.4/10 

Year: 2008
Country: United Kingdom
Section: documentary
Tags: girl, medical check
Description: People with different "embarrassing" health problems, are featured in this documentary-style show. The doctors try the best treatments for each patient. It also include educational material.
Video Added: 18.04.2025

Kansa koulussa - S01E03 - Yhteiseen peruskouluun

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Date: 24.10.2004
Country: Finland
Section: art
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: The Parliament of independent Finland made public education a key development priority. After long efforts, the Compulsory Education Act was passed in 1921. It was not until the 1930s that every village, or at least its vicinity, had a public school.
To a common comprehensive school. In the 1960s, public schools no longer met the needs of a changing society. In its early years, the idea of ​​a common school for all children met with much criticism and prejudice. Editor Raili Löyttyniemi.
Video Added: 18.02.2025

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