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SC 0.5/10 

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

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

Van Brokken en Afval - deel 4
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 4. Compilation of films and raw footage from the period 1927-1939. Better than a bathhouse: sailing on a ditch, children in a boat and in the water, a boy in a kayak, boys diving and swimming. The Iron Man near 's-Hertogenbosch: a small lake with a sailboat. Launching a balloon in the stadium in Amsterdam: a huge balloon with a man on a basket underneath it in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. A practical school desk for outdoor education, Cergnat 1927, Switzerland: children with a pack on their back that can be folded out into a table and chair, lessons in the open air. Zaandijk in 1920: no footage, only the title on screen. Free and order exercises at a school in Switzerland: schoolchildren doing exercises on a sports field. The youth of Kattenburg have their own swimming pool: sign Groote Kattenburgerstraat - Centrum, Mariniersplein, children in the water, adults watch from a bridge, children dive from a bridge, boys on a floating raft. They have a magnificent diving tower: boys dive from a bridge, play and hang under the bridge, children get dressed. Shot put: boys compete in a shot put competition (Switzerland). Dikkie tries to catch fish: a boy tries to catch fish by hand. Ice rink in Bloemendaal 1931: old and young skate, including in a train and swaying, a woman does a pirouette and falls. An unusual dancer in an unusual setting, Cergnat, Switzerland 1927: a girl dances on a carpet while other children watch and applaud. The Doorwerd wave pool near Arnhem 1935. The pool empty: shots of an empty pool. Full: a swimming pool filled with water and visitors. The first waves: waves in the pool with swimmers and bathers, people holding on to ropes stretched across the pool. Make yourself comfortable: a boy doing exercises with a physiotherapist. Triplets in the stadium: a cycling race with three-person bicycles in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

Distributed by Amateurfilm Platform.
Video Added: 15.08.2025

The Fifties - The Rage Within

SC 3.2/10 

Year: 1997
Country: USA
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The 6th episode "The Rage Within". From Emmet Till to Willie Mays, Americans begin to seriously reconsider how they confront issues of race in America.
Video Added: 08.07.2025

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

Skåne, Halland og Blekinge

SC 3.7/10 

Date: 01.07.2025
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: "I hope this film has made them want to experience Skåne, Halland and Blekinge - old Danish land," says travel photographer Axel Hald-Christensen at the end of his film around old Danish territory. Along the way, he talks about everything from Midsummer's Eve to Danish-Swedish war history to the Swedes' love of minigolf.

At the same time, he travels the three areas sparsely and passes by the following destinations and attractions: Helsingborg, Kuln, Norrvikens trädgården, Landskrona (including Barsebäck), Lund, Borsjö monastery and wildlife park, Spångens Gästgivaregård, Silverhill, Marsvinholm, Ystad, Glimmingehus, Vittskövle castle, Kristiansstad, Karlshamn, Elleholm, Mörrum å, Eriksberg, Långasjönäs cabin town, Sjärö, Ronneby (where part of the Danish brigade was stationed during World War II), Brömsebro, Karlskrona, Halmstad, Tylösand, Varberg, the western town of High Chaparral and Gothenburg.
Video Added: 01.07.2025

República Guarani

Year: 1981
Country: Brazil
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The story of the so called Christian-Communist Republic of the Guaranis. Formed by jesuit missions in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, between 1610/1767, it congregated about 150,000 indians in almost fifty "Reductions" (the cities organized by the Jesuits). The Christian-Communist Republic of the Guaranis was decimated by attacks of expeditions and mercenaries, and served as excuse for the kings of Portugal and Spain to banish the Jesuits from America.
Video Added: 17.06.2025

Skoallereiskes Amelan - Oranjewald - Jan de Roos, 1954, 1958
Year: 1954
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: School trip to Ameland. White farm on Ameland. Children busy in the camping farm. Eating together. Children take a bike ride across the island. Cycling through the dunes. Children playing on the beach. Cycling to the boat. Images of the upper deck on the boat.
School trip to Oranjewoud. Including images of the slide. Climbing the lookout tower. (in color:) Parent with child to school for the first time. Child is greeted by the teacher. Children in the school desk.
(in black and white) Jan de Roos comes to school (October 4, 1954 or 1958). Children walk with loaves of bread on which "October 4 Dierendei" is written (= animal day).
Video Added: 13.06.2025

En ny by blev til

SC 3.0/10 

Year: 1975
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Based on the construction of Albertslund Kulturhus, the development of Albertslund Municipality from bare ground to a modern suburb with nature, a station center, shops in the city center, kindergartens, schools, a moped track, a swimming pool and the large industrial area - the workplaces - with cluster houses and apartment buildings right nearby. The film follows the many phases of the construction of the cultural center and the decisions behind the urban development in general.
Video Added: 03.06.2025