Historisk film fra Klintebjerg Børnehjem 1957-59
Year: 1959
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The Askegaard family, by Hans Askegaard and his son, Søren Askegaard, both of Odense, Denmark, have made this historical film from Klintebjerg Orphanage. Hans Askegaard's parents, Lisel and Erik Askegaard, took office as the headmaster of Klintebjerg Orphanage on January 1, 1937. At that time, Hans Askegaard, who was born in 1929, was eight years old. The film was filmed by Hans Askegaard and his brother Klaus Askegaard in the years 1957-59 at and around Klintebjerg Orphanage, and there is also footage from the orphanage's summer excursion to the North Sea. The film is commented on by Hans Askegaard and Søren Askegaard along the way. A big and heartfelt thank you to the Askegaard family for making this film available to us, and thus to the general public.
Video Added: 26.08.2025

I kø foran livet

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Year: 1958
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: How can we utilize the great resource that the large cohorts born during the war are? The film shows that the conditions for solving the problem are good. The large companies have apprenticeship schools, where the young people receive a thorough education before they enter production fully qualified in the last year of their apprenticeship. Many professions have apprentice preschools, from which the masters receive students who, even before they become apprentices, know the most elementary things in the profession they are entering. The perspective is given to Asia and India, where millions of people live on the hunger line. Giant open-air schools are established, where adult natives struggle to learn to read.
Video Added: 29.07.2025

Turkish Red Crescent's Pendik Youth Camp
Year: 1950
Country: Turkey
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, summer camp, swimming
Description: The film describes the Turkish Red Crescent’s Pendik camp for disadvantaged children. This summer health camp was established in 1946 by the Turkish Junior Red Crescent. Activities of the camp include: physical examinations, games, sports, and entertainment such as singing, dancing and enjoying the spectacle of a dancing bear.
Video Added: 04.07.2025

Skoallereiskes Amelan - Oranjewald - Jan de Roos, 1954, 1958
Year: 1954
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: School trip to Ameland. White farm on Ameland. Children busy in the camping farm. Eating together. Children take a bike ride across the island. Cycling through the dunes. Children playing on the beach. Cycling to the boat. Images of the upper deck on the boat.
School trip to Oranjewoud. Including images of the slide. Climbing the lookout tower. (in color:) Parent with child to school for the first time. Child is greeted by the teacher. Children in the school desk.
(in black and white) Jan de Roos comes to school (October 4, 1954 or 1958). Children walk with loaves of bread on which "October 4 Dierendei" is written (= animal day).
Video Added: 13.06.2025

Eto kasaetsya kazhdogo iz nas

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Year: 1957
Country: Soviet Union
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The film talks about the importance of a healthy lifestyle, from the birth of a child to the very last years of an elderly person, about the influence of physical activity and bad habits on health, about the role of sports in the formation and education of a healthy society.
Video Added: 16.05.2025

Svømmeundervisning, Feriekolonien Nordstrand ca. 1950
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Description: The colony Nordstrand is located on the Kattegat between Rørvig and Nykøbing Sjælland. In the early 1900s, the Frederiksberg Municipal Teachers' Association began sending children to the countryside, and in 1905 the municipal teachers' association established the first holiday colony. The children were to have fresh sea air, sun and plenty of food. Boys and girls were sent to the colony separately. The holiday colonies were a reflection of the 1900s' growing focus on children's health and well-being. Frederiksberg Municipality still sends children to Nordstrand every year.
Video Added: 29.04.2025

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Artek pioneer camp 1950
Year: 1950
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: Views of the Black Sea, Ayu-Dag, Gurzuf, pioneer camp "Artek". Celebrations dedicated to the 25th anniversary of "Artek". Present V. M. Molotov.
Video Added: 11.04.2025

Halsingborg, staden kring Karnan
Year: 1950
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: A portrait of Sweden's fifth city, the pearl of the Strait, in a time when faith in the future was proud and certain of victory.
Video Added: 25.03.2025

Opi uimahypyt

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Year: 1953
Country: Finland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The film teaches us the basics of swimming jumps.
Video Added: 24.01.2025

Uimisen iloa ja auringon kiloa

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Year: 1958
Country: Finland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: The joy of swimming in the pool and in natural waters.
Video Added: 07.01.2025