Estafeta (Vsesoyuznyy fizkulturno-sportivnyy almanakh nr.4)
Year: 1975
Country: Soviet Union
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: 1. Like a fish in water...
A child is taught to swim in a pool. Children run into the sea. Children splash in the shallows. Swimming in the pool. Play activities with an instructor. Round dance in the pool. Children learn to hold their breath. Learning to dive. Children retrieve toys from the bottom. Swimming lessons at a pioneer camp. Water polo.

2. From seventeen to forty.
Triathletes train in a forest park. Target. Shooting with a sport pistol. Swimming training. Cross-country running in a forest park.

Alternation: B. Sevryukov narrates, footage of training.
Video Added: 14.11.2025

Otdykh na more
Year: 1988
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: Children playing on the beach. A participant in an international symposium taking place on the Black Sea coast. Men and women on the beach. Children playing on the sand and running along the shore in the surf. Views of a cargo port. A meeting of an international scientific symposium. Faces of symposium participants, one of the participants speaking. Symposium participants during a boat cruise in the ship's lounge, chatting with each other and looking at the seashore. People swimming in the coastal waves and going ashore. A view of a part of the beach, a woman sunbathing standing up. A father, son, and daughter build a sand tower. Boys build a sand castle at the water's edge. A coastal mountain landscape. Panorama of a part of a tent camp for vacationers on the seashore, people sitting by their tents. People on the beach and in the water, faces of women coming ashore. People swimming in an incoming wave, a woman lying on the sand. People going ashore. People by their tents. A woman in a hat sitting on the sand. People are sitting on the beach, swimming in the sea. A man wearing flippers and holding an inflatable mattress is wading into the sea. Children are playing in the water, floating on inflatable rings. People are in the sea and on the beach. Children are sunbathing on the sand, piling up seaweed and sea mud.
Video Added: 07.11.2025

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

Torzhestvenno obeshchayu... Vpered, otryady szhatye!

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Year: 1982
Country: Soviet Union
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Keywords: Artek
Description: About the organizers of the pioneer organization, pioneers of the 20-30s V. Zorin, M. Jalil, about the first pioneers N. Kapitanova, Z. Ogneva, Z. Efimova, about the history of the pioneer camp "Artek".
Video Added: 14.10.2025

Finlandia

Year: 1973
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: On a trip around Finland with seasoned travel photographer Axel Hald-Christensen. The trip starts on board the ferry Finlandia. On the way, the travel photographer and his travel companions pass Lahti, Mikkeli and Savonlinna, where he films sights such as Olavinlinna (Olofsborg) and the Kerimaki Church. Along the way, they stay overnight at campsites and both sail and swim in the many lakes and rivers. The landscape is characterized by forest and water. The trip also passes Helsinki and the various sights that the capital offers: the iconic station building, the market square, open-air theater and folk dancing in Finnish folk costumes. In addition, there are also recordings from, among other places, the Temple Square Church and the statue of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who is considered Finland's national poet. Finally, the trip heads home again with Finlandia.
Video Added: 07.10.2025

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

Wangeniafiskeri

SC 3.4/10 

Year: 1973
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: In the Democratic Republic of Zaire (formerly Congo), the Wangenia people live at the Tshopo Falls (formerly Stanley Falls). When fishing in the river, they exploit the differences between low and high water levels for a kind of trick fishing from scaffolding built out in the water.
Video Added: 23.09.2025

Patrol Leaders Training - Gilwell 1935
Year: 1935
Country: Australia
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Keywords: scouting
Description: Training of Patrol Leaders was important to offer good Scouting to Troops.
PL's were trained in a range of scouting skills at the main Victorian campsite at Gilwell Park, Gembrook, Victoria.
Video Added: 16.09.2025

Solntse, more i 100 fantasiy

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Year: 1965
Country: Soviet Union
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: Pioneer camp "Orlyonok" on the seashore. Children swim, play tennis, basketball, chess. Neptune's holiday. Lunch in the canteen, birthday greetings. Pioneers go on a hike, cook food over a fire, have fun. Costumed theatrical performance "Olympic Games in Ancient Greece". Pioneers compete in running, wrestling on the carpet, javelin throwing. Pioneers sing songs by the fire.
Video Added: 12.09.2025

Newsreel Nizhneye povolzhye 1960 nr. 30 - Pionerskoye leto
Year: 1960
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: Pioneer summer.
Views of the pioneer camp "Yuzhny Kaspiets" for children of Astrakhan fishermen. Pioneers on the playground during their leisure time. Riding on swing boats and a small Ferris wheel. Pioneers fishing with rods. Girls swimming in a wooden pool. View of part of the beach, pioneers playing ball. Boys running into the water from the bank of the Volga.
Video Added: 29.08.2025