Kan De huske? Køge gennem 25 Aar

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Year: 1940
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: A market is taking place in Køge. Farmers from the surrounding area flock to Køge Town Square. A selection of the town's shops is showcased, including Axel Kiel’s bedding store, H. Langkilde’s men’s outfitters, and Johan Fursøe’s wine shop. Local residents are also featured, including Køge’s own "character" Reinhardt—known as "the Admiral who sorted out everything and everyone"—and the teacher Niels Koefoed, who would later become the mayor of Køge. Footage from the first ship launch at Kjøge Shipyard on July 26, 1921, shows the S/S *Nerma* being put into the water. Footage from the South Beach (Sydstranden) shows men and women bathing separately. The sports club’s anniversary celebration on July 24, 1921, features events such as a "veterans' match" played by Køge Football Club. A tug-of-war contest takes place to decide the awarding of a cinema license; Christian Arhoff acts as the referee. Footage from one of the tourist association’s festivities on August 4–5, 1928, includes a flower parade. Scenes from the streets and lanes of Køge show idyllic half-timbered houses, the Køge River, Køge Harbor, and Vallø Castle. The cinema is set to move to new, modern premises; reconstruction begins in the autumn of 1939 and is completed the following year. Speeches are delivered by various mayors at the topping-out ceremony. Some of the footage from this film also appears in the films *Badeanstalten Køge* and *Køge by 1928-1921*.
Video Added: 29.09.2026

Hjälp Till Polen
Year: 1946
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, swimming
Description: The film starts with scenes of reconstruction in Poland after WW2. It then shows: construction of hospital in Otwock by Swedish Polish Aid for children with TB; Swedish Red Cross assisting repatriation of Dutch citizens sent to Poland as slave workers during the war; activities at summer camp in Dzierzazno for orphans. The film ends with fundraising appeal for continued aid to Europe’s children.
Director: Bertil Ekeroth
Video Added: 25.09.2026

Givat Haim children's and adult swimming pools
Year: 1940
Country: Israel
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Original title: בריכות ילדים ומבוגרים גבעת חיים שנות ה30 וה40
Video Added: 22.09.2026

Suffer Little Children
Year: 1945
Country: Canada
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: At the end of World War II there were sixty million sick and starving children in Europe. Clothes and toys from every village and town in the United States and Canada helped to bring comfort and cheer, but this met only a small part of the demand. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration undertook to provide food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education and sympathetic attention to these terrorized victims of war.
Directed by: Sydney Newman
Video Added: 15.09.2026

Eventyrlandet Marokko
Year: 1948
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: A journey through Morocco. The trip takes you to Tangier, Fez, Marrakech, Tizi n'Test, Taroudant, Agadir, Mogador, Casablanca and Rabat.
Video Added: 25.08.2026

Alltag nach dem Krieg
Year: 1948
Country: West Germany
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: The documentary contains exclusively original footage by amateur filmmaker Elisabeth Wilms from the years 1945-1948 and shows (using examples from Dortmund) the living conditions in a city destroyed by the Second World War: living in bombed-out houses, in cellars and emergency shelters, completely inadequate supplies of food, fuel, clothing and general consumer goods, the consequences of the emergency situation for people's state of health, chaotic traffic conditions, self-help and support from foreign charitable organizations, clean-up and reconstruction work.
Video Added: 02.06.2026

Camp Hawthorne 1940 - 1949, (Volume 2)
Year: 1949
Country: USA
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The early years of Camp Hawthorne narrated by Sandy and Lorraine Sheldon. Music by Lorraine Sheldon. Lex Sheldon (Lorraine's husband and Sandy's (and Bill's) father) was director of Camp Hawthorne from 1950 to 1969 and a camper and counselor at the camp in the 1920's and 1930's. Lex attended Poly Prep where he was the captain of the football team and Dartmouth College.
Volume 2.
Video Added: 09.12.2025

Maalaisemännän työsaralta I
Year: 1943
Country: Finland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Women's everyday life on a farm in winter. Working from early morning until late at night, milking, caring for children, cooking, cleaning and sewing.
Video Added: 24.10.2025

Vore mindste Københavnere

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Year: 1941
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Depiction of what the public sector does for infants and preschool children. One of the aims of the early intervention is to keep infant mortality down. Last year, the Mothers' Aid helped around 2,500 women, including running a home for expectant mothers. Copenhagen has 55 health visitors who travel around and visit newborns under the age of 1. She checks for illnesses and helps to get breastfeeding started. Approximately 10,000 children are born in Copenhagen each year. In addition, Copenhagen has 25 childcare centres spread across the city. 150 nurseries, asylums and kindergartens are also spread across the capital.
Video Added: 06.06.2025

Et lille Besøg hos Familien Soya

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Year: 1944
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, girl
Description: Photographer Jørgen Gregersen visits author and playwright Carl Erik Soya and his family in Kgs. Lyngby. The film is in two parts. The first part was filmed in the summer of 1941. Here Soya is seen in the garden with his wife and youngest daughter, Maj. Soya's two other children, William and Hyben, are also seen. The second part was filmed in the summer of 1944. Here the contrast is shown between a war-torn Denmark during the occupation and the idyllic family life in the garden of the Soya family, where they enjoy the warmth. The summer also offers a visit to the author's colleague Cai M. Woel and a trip to Dyrehavsbakken.
Video Added: 02.05.2025