Sommerliv i Rørvig
Year: 1957
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Footage from life in the summer house of the composer and conductor Erik Tuxen (1902-1957) and his family. Presumably from the late 1940s. Erik Tuxen was a refugee in Sweden from 1943-1945. In the film, a milk wagon appears with the inscription "guaranteed tubercle-free milk". Around 1950, tuberculosis in cattle was eradicated.
Video Added: 25.11.2025

Polioepidemien i København

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Year: 1952
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: In 1952, the largest polio epidemic hit Denmark, with Copenhagen in particular being particularly hard hit. Polio mostly affected children and young people, and most were admitted to Blegdamshospitalet in Copenhagen, which treated around 3,000 patients with an average age of 11 years between 24 July and 31 December 1952. 866 patients had paralysis of the arms or legs, and 316 had paralysis of the respiratory muscles and were therefore unable to breathe on their own. Some of them were fitted with an 'iron lung' - what we today call a respirator. Others had a tracheotomy - a hole in the throat leading directly into the windpipe. The film shows a number of technical aids for respiration and the procedure itself is demonstrated.
During the polio epidemic in 1952, Blegdamshospitalet became world-famous for introducing ventilator treatment to combat respiratory paralysis.
Video Added: 21.11.2025

Wild River Safari
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Wild River Safari is a short 1954 documentary/travelogue from Castle Films that follows an expedition upriver into the heart of Africa.
Video Added: 11.11.2025

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