Welt im Film 1949 nr. 219

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Date: 08.08.1949
Country: West Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Berlin holiday, children play in the sand at the Potsdamer Platz between debris houses in underground car parks with water fully expired. Blasted bunkers in the Tiergarten. Children climbing on the bunker and bask in the glow.
Video Added: 28.03.2023

Mennesker i et Hus
Year: 1943
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: A municipal film about the extensive activities of the 'welfare service'. The viewer is introduced to the residents of a selected property and gives us an insight into the fates of families and individuals.
Video Added: 03.03.2023

Vakantie Terschelling
Year: 1947
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl, sunbathing
Video Added: 13.01.2023

Camp Wingo
Year: 1943
Country: USA
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: Camp Wingo was a co-ed Jewish camp located where Camp Fatima is now - on Upper Suncook Lake in Gilmanton Iron Works NH. Camp Wingo operated from the 1910's until it closed in 1943 and relocated to Bear Lake in South Waterford ME (Mailing Address: Harrison ME) where it remained open until 1967. The Diocese of Manchester purchased the Camp Wingo NH property in 1948 and reopened the camp as Camp Fatima in the Summer of 1949.
This video is from Camp Wingo from 1943 & before.
Video Added: 03.01.2023

For børnenes skyld

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Year: 1948
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp
Description: A propaganda film for the Christmas brand, which simultaneously depicts life in a Christmas brand home and the history. Postmaster Holbøll got the idea for the Christmas stamp in 1904, and this has meant that every year a much-needed recreation stay can be offered for hundreds of children at one of the country's Christmas stamp homes.
Video Added: 20.12.2022

Uusikaarlepyy

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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