Broken Wings (1950-1959)
Year: 1950
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Keywords: Pathe
Description: Cottages in an idyllic rural setting of large trees. Kittens playing. Newly hatched Chicks next to eggs in their nest. Below a little girl with her legs in irons and a club foot (Betty) picks up a fallen chick. She takes it to "Sister", and together they go inside. Betty nursing her doll remembers how she arrived at the home.
A train arrives and Betty is lifted into a stroller. Other handicapped children play in the garden. Flash back to the slums they have come from. The children sit in their beds in a ward playing with toys and dolls. WS chalets. School activities. Resting on stretchers. Babies in prams. Children going to bed and taking a shower.
The children are being led into church, and listen to a sermon. Children playing and pushing prams, playing sports and chess. Ex-boy working as a type setter. Printers at work. Magazine cover showing two Brownie's with the title "Children".
The narrator, Leslie Banks, with Betty sitting on his lap talks to camera. He tells of the great work of the National Children's Home, and Betty says "Thank you very much"
Video Added: 13.08.2020

Busigny Village for Homeless Children
Year: 1950
Country: United Kingdom
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: Orphanage in France, 1950s/
Video Added: 03.08.2020

Palmolive soap commercial 1951
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Section: commercials
Tags: bathing, girl
Keywords: Palmolive
Video Added: 01.08.2020

Lykkebo Skole 1950
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check
Description: Film about Lykkebo School in Valby.
Video Added: 28.07.2020

Bleekneusjes Aansterken aan zee
Year: 1950
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: City children in summer camp.
Video Added: 16.07.2020

Skolerne på Lolland-Falster
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Keywords: physical education
Description: Admissions from different schools at Lolland-Falster. Pictures of play in the school yard. Teaching crafts, needlework, housekeeping, music and gymnastics with jumping abdomen in slow motion. Round ball in the school yard and other games. Ice skating on frozen lake. Boy gymnastics in the hall with rope exercises in slow motion. Girls jump over wooden plinth etc. From 1950s.
Video Added: 01.07.2020

Thailand - American Gift
Year: 1959
Country: Thailand
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy
Description: British Pathe. Thirty kilometre from the thailand's capital of bangkok, in the town of Honburi, thai government is running a reformatory...
Video Added: 18.06.2020

Aborigines of Arnhem Land
Year: 1950
Country: Australia
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy
Description: A documentary film about the indigenous aborigines of the Northern Territory of Australia introduced by Ray Forrest.
Video Added: 09.06.2020

Swimming in the Oresund
Year: 1950
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl, swimming
Video Added: 31.05.2020

Holidays in Cieplice
Year: 1952
Country: Poland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Video Added: 29.05.2020