Andhra Pradesh
Year: 1978
Country: Switzerland
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Following the destruction caused by cyclones that ravaged regions in the south of India towards the end of 1977, this documentary focusses on the second phase of the international rescue operation co-ordinated by the League of Red Cross Societies [former name of the IFRC] in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry. The Indian Red Cross organized 170 camps for more than a million people who were made homeless. Distribution of blankets, milk powder, rice, medicine, and cooking instruments. The relief operation then concentrated on the reconstruction of more solid houses. Communal shelters could be used as educational and medical centres when not needed in emergencies.
Video Added: 13.01.2026

Le Visage de la Faim
Year: 1974
Country: Liberia, Burkina Faso
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: This film shows the relief aid provided to victims of drought in the Sahel. In response to an appeal from the League of Red Cross Societies, thousands of tons of food was shipped to Liberia and then on to Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) by plane. The League obtained protein-enriched flour from a company in Liberia. At Goroum-Goroum, 300 kilometres north of Ouagadougou, the Upper Volta Red Cross unloaded the relief supplies from the plane and distributed them to Touareg nomads.
Video Added: 30.12.2025

I torkans och Svältens spår
Year: 1972
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy
Description: Swedish Red Cross, "Drought in West Africa"
Video Added: 16.12.2025

Guds børn

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Year: 1974
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: A period document from Copenhagen and some of the surrounding municipalities from the 'hippie era', where the Christian movement Guds Børn, the NATO army from SOLVOGNEN and Børnemagt and others filled the city with happenings, demos and street music. There are, among other things, recordings from Christiania, Strøget and Brumleby and of the Condon Committee's lectures on UFOs.
Video Added: 12.12.2025

Rolf und Susanne gehen ins Hallenbad

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Year: 1974
Country: West Germany
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, swimming
Description: Rolf and Susanne visit an indoor swimming pool. They learn how to buy tickets at the ticket office, how to find and use the changing rooms and showers and how to behave correctly in the pools for swimmers and non-swimmers. Motivating animated film shots interrupt the real scenes.
Video Added: 05.12.2025

Femø 1971

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Year: 1974
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl
Description: The film consists of conversations among women on the first feminist camp. We receive a strong impression of their freshly gained curiosity and openness towards themselves and each other as they try to understand and analyse their lives as women. Through the film runs as an undercurrent that the aftermath of the camp will be new feminist relationships.
Video Added: 04.12.2025

Estafeta (Vsesoyuznyy fizkulturno-sportivnyy almanakh nr.4)
Year: 1975
Country: Soviet Union
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: 1. Like a fish in water...
A child is taught to swim in a pool. Children run into the sea. Children splash in the shallows. Swimming in the pool. Play activities with an instructor. Round dance in the pool. Children learn to hold their breath. Learning to dive. Children retrieve toys from the bottom. Swimming lessons at a pioneer camp. Water polo.

2. From seventeen to forty.
Triathletes train in a forest park. Target. Shooting with a sport pistol. Swimming training. Cross-country running in a forest park.

Alternation: B. Sevryukov narrates, footage of training.
Video Added: 14.11.2025

Filmdagbog fra Thy

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Year: 1972
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: In the summer of 1970, the association ‘Det Ny Samfund’ acquired a large piece of bare land in North Jutland and invited anyone who wanted to go to summer camp and free expression. We are in the golden age of youth rebellion, with lots of energy and creativity, and where everything is suddenly possible. In the film we follow the story of two friends from day to day, experienced through a small 8 mm narrow-film camera and a tape recorder. Thylejren is the starting point, but there are also detours to Switzerland and Sweden.
Video Added: 17.10.2025

Finlandia

Year: 1973
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: On a trip around Finland with seasoned travel photographer Axel Hald-Christensen. The trip starts on board the ferry Finlandia. On the way, the travel photographer and his travel companions pass Lahti, Mikkeli and Savonlinna, where he films sights such as Olavinlinna (Olofsborg) and the Kerimaki Church. Along the way, they stay overnight at campsites and both sail and swim in the many lakes and rivers. The landscape is characterized by forest and water. The trip also passes Helsinki and the various sights that the capital offers: the iconic station building, the market square, open-air theater and folk dancing in Finnish folk costumes. In addition, there are also recordings from, among other places, the Temple Square Church and the statue of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, who is considered Finland's national poet. Finally, the trip heads home again with Finlandia.
Video Added: 07.10.2025

Wangeniafiskeri

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Year: 1973
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: In the Democratic Republic of Zaire (formerly Congo), the Wangenia people live at the Tshopo Falls (formerly Stanley Falls). When fishing in the river, they exploit the differences between low and high water levels for a kind of trick fishing from scaffolding built out in the water.
Video Added: 23.09.2025