India Speaks - Part 1
Year: 1933
Country: India
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: A filmed recollection of Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent in the early 1930s. 1930s, India, street scenes, gateway, pedestrians, camels, Hindu temples, ornately carved statues of deities on temple towers, Brahma temples, bull statue, war horse statue, stone elephants, effigies of gods, sect members worshipping Goddess of Kali in secret shrine, worshippers sacrificing goat and offering blood to Kali, dragon statue, street beggars and holy men, Richard Halliburton throwing silver rupee into street vendor’s begging bowl, street holy man wearing ball of barbed wire on his face, sun worshippers, widow and children begging, man leading cow on street, cows given right of way, roaming freely through streets and temples and eating in temple, Hindu nearing death holding tail of cow for desired reincarnation, men riding temple elephants, symbols painted on men’s foreheads to designate caste level, caste marks, Tilaka Brahmin and lower caste levels, untouchables, women, woman dressed in ornate attire spinning around accompanied by musicians, woman using spinning wheel, ornately carved window screens, child marriage, child brides, children eating and holding babies, children holding hands, guru leading Halliburton deep into jungle to see ceremony, Halliburton walking across rope bridge, man stepping on crocodile, python wrapped around tree branch, vampire bats roosting in tree, swarm of bats soaring out of nests at night sending nearby wildlife to seek cover, Hindu festival, elephant processional, Hindus bathing in river, man having silver skewer thrust through tongue, worshippers with pierced bodies, guru and Halliburton watching rites, female devil dancers, drummers, man with nails in his back and arms, man pulling heavy cart by hook attached to skin, worshippers bathing in river.
Video Added: 25.05.2021

Veckorevy 1932-08-15

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Date: 15.08.1932
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl
Description: Health through nude culture - nudists on Ingarö.
Video Added: 08.05.2021

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

Saint-Jean-de-Luz, août 1934
Year: 1934
Country: France
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Video Added: 12.11.2020

Odessa 1935
Year: 1935
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, sunbathing, swimming
Video Added: 24.10.2020

Children Practicing Yoga with Krishnamacharya
Year: 1938
Country: India
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl
Description: Krishnamacharya teaches yoga to two of his children.
Video Added: 22.10.2020

Skolesvomning ca. 1935
Year: 1935
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy
Description: In 1934, the Frederiksberg Swimming Pool was inaugurated. Previously, the children went to Heligoland in the summer months to learn to swim. The new swimming pool was a big step forward. Before the children were let loose in the swimming hall, they had to practice all swimming strokes and swimming techniques - the so-called dry swimming, which took place at the school itself. From the film School dentist, swimming and athletics, approx. 1935.
Video Added: 06.09.2020

Ondata di caldo
Date: 23.06.1937
Country: Germany
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: Sequence description: a workhorse drinks from a fountain on the road to Berlin; a gentleman sweats a lot and wipes his face with a handkerchief; the pools were open free to the public; families of bathers by the pool; two little girls play with a pram and a doll; a water slide very crowded with children; the sale of ice cream; one child cries that she does not want to take a shower while another is having fun; all naked children play in the water;
Video Added: 02.09.2020

Happy Schooldays
Year: 1932
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing
Keywords: Pathe
Description: "Here's a French babies' school, where they believe in the open-air treatment." L/S of large group of children sitting in the open air. "A good start - a drink for thirsty little ones." C/U of woman pouring liquid from a bottle into little metal cups held by the children. C/U of a group of five children - they all wear the same romper suits and hats.
"Lessons for the puzzled ones..." High angle of group of children at a table. L/S of children sitting at tables, little girl walks around giving out pencils. C/U of boy drawing or practising his writing. C/U of boy with head in his hands. "Diversions of all sorts to build up little bodies..." L/S of children doing ring-a-ring-a-roses holding hands. They put their hands in the air and clap them. Cute shot of the kids lying on their backs and kicking their legs in the air - some kind of keep fit exercise. The children then do "wheelbarrows" - propelling each other around the garden.
M/S of the children sitting in three lines hanging onto each others ankles and rowing (like the "Oops Upside Your Head" dance so popular in the early 1980s!) C/U of a naked girl having her chest measured. The nurse or teacher is telling the girl to take deep breaths. C/U of two little rascals. L/S of two women watching over the children as they all lie on the ground for a snooze. "And, of course, a rest, well-earned - whether on the ground..." Cute shot of some of the kids dozing. "...or the regular siesta." M/S of some of the other children sleeping on canvas beds. C/U of one child asleep. C/U of another child, lying on its tummy with its bum in the air! Cute.
Video Added: 23.08.2020

Summer School
Year: 1939
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, girl, summer camp
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Aka Children's Holiday Camp
Video Added: 22.07.2020