Uusikaarlepyy

Year: 1946
Country: Finland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: Presentation film of the Ostrobothnian city. Bus station, wood gas bus arrival and departure. Swedish-language seminar. Training school. Swedish language folk school. Church, built in 1708. Segerstråle's stained glass windows. The first organ made in Finland. City pictures. Laundry dock. Children swimming. Etelä-Esplanadi and Kreivi Totti street. Hydropower plant. Bridge over Lapuanjoki. Cafe, on the site of the old bridge. Bridge and parks. Flora statue. Topelius statue. Kudnäs manor houses and park.
Video Added: 06.12.2022

Finlandia katsaus 111

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Date: 25.08.1949
Country: Finland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp
Description: Summer camp for the children of the Cable Factory workers in Lehtisaari, Espoo. Children’s party organised by the Helsinki Police Department.
Video Added: 18.11.2022

Suomalaislapsia Ruotsiin

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Year: 1944
Country: Finland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: A touching documentary directed by Holger Harrivirra (1915-86) about Finnish children, about 70,000 of whom were sent to Sweden during the war years. The war child train in the film comes from the Karelian Isthmus in the summer of 1944, travels via Kuopio and Haaparanta to Stockholm. Haaparanta has a tea sauna and a medical check-up as well as a check of handover papers. Another batch of Karelian war children travels to Umeå via Helsinki and Vaasa in the summer of 1944.
Video Added: 06.09.2022

Epidemics Children - 1940s Polio Epidemic Fundraising Film
Year: 1940
Country: USA
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: This frightening film from the 1940s shows some of the effects of the polio disease and the treatment regimen of this era including water therapy and the use of iron lungs.
Video Added: 05.08.2022

Lapset maalle!
Year: 1941
Country: Finland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: In the information campaign, children from the city on their summer vacation are encouraged to go to the countryside, to fresh and clean nature.
Video Added: 21.06.2022

Indianer och blekansikten

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Year: 1945
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: Pictures from the children's camp, and propaganda for Solstickan's activities.
Video Added: 01.04.2022

Denmark Grows Up

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Year: 1947
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: A broad picture of the public services undertaken by the state and local authorities to protect the lives of Danish children from before birth till they leave school. The training of midwives; public health nurses, 'sundhedsplejersker', who visit all newborn babies, and provide a free voluntary advisory service for all mothers with children below the age of one year. The Danish equivalent of Day Nurseries, which provide both recreational and educational facilities. Municipal school health services, and the blind and deaf and dumb children.
Video Added: 04.03.2022

Onni yksillä

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Year: 1947
Country: Finland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: In the film, the summer vacation is spent hiking, swimming and in a restaurant, as well as doing hay work and taking care of the vegetable garden.
Video Added: 11.01.2022

Newsreel Novosti Britanii 1940 nr. 23028

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Year: 1940
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: Arrival of replenishment to the Middle East.
Video Added: 04.01.2022

Footage Romanian chronicle of the Second World War (1940 - 1944)
Year: 1944
Country: Romania
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Video Added: 19.10.2021