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Year: 1988
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, sunbathing, swimming
Description: Children playing on the beach. A participant in an international symposium taking place on the Black Sea coast. Men and women on the beach. Children playing on the sand and running along the shore in the surf. Views of a cargo port. A meeting of an international scientific symposium. Faces of symposium participants, one of the participants speaking. Symposium participants during a boat cruise in the ship's lounge, chatting with each other and looking at the seashore. People swimming in the coastal waves and going ashore. A view of a part of the beach, a woman sunbathing standing up. A father, son, and daughter build a sand tower. Boys build a sand castle at the water's edge. A coastal mountain landscape. Panorama of a part of a tent camp for vacationers on the seashore, people sitting by their tents. People on the beach and in the water, faces of women coming ashore. People swimming in an incoming wave, a woman lying on the sand. People going ashore. People by their tents. A woman in a hat sitting on the sand. People are sitting on the beach, swimming in the sea. A man wearing flippers and holding an inflatable mattress is wading into the sea. Children are playing in the water, floating on inflatable rings. People are in the sea and on the beach. Children are sunbathing on the sand, piling up seaweed and sea mud.
Video Added: 07.11.2025

Het leven van den inlander in de dessa
Year: 1913
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, swimming
Description: A documentary about village life on a river in Java in the Dutch East Indies in the 1910s. The river is used as a playground for children, and as a washing place for food, horses, and buffaloes.
Director: J.C. Lamster.
Video Added: 04.11.2025

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

Kortfilm om Göteborg i äldre tider
Year: 1930
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Ca. 1930.
Video Added: 30.09.2025

Patrol Leaders Training - Gilwell 1935
Year: 1935
Country: Australia
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, swimming
Keywords: scouting
Description: Training of Patrol Leaders was important to offer good Scouting to Troops.
PL's were trained in a range of scouting skills at the main Victorian campsite at Gilwell Park, Gembrook, Victoria.
Video Added: 16.09.2025

Newsreel Nizhneye povolzhye 1960 nr. 30 - Pionerskoye leto
Year: 1960
Country: Soviet Union
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: Pioneer summer.
Views of the pioneer camp "Yuzhny Kaspiets" for children of Astrakhan fishermen. Pioneers on the playground during their leisure time. Riding on swing boats and a small Ferris wheel. Pioneers fishing with rods. Girls swimming in a wooden pool. View of part of the beach, pioneers playing ball. Boys running into the water from the bank of the Volga.
Video Added: 29.08.2025

Van Brokken en Afval - deel 1
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 1. Compilation of films and raw footage from the period 1927-1939. My Hans: amateur filmmaker Dick Laan and his jackdaw, Hans. Horse polo: a horse polo match in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. Young anglers: boys in shorts, some wearing ties, fishing with a fishing rod. A boy baits his hook and slides the bamboo sections of his rod together. Some footage from the film of the Hoog-Blaricum children's sanatorium in Laren in 1930: a nurse; boys and girls in beds in the ward and outdoors, children being washed, doctors examining patients, children sunbathing. The outdoor school: boys and girls set up chairs and tables on the terrace and receive lessons. The kitchen: staff serving food from large pots onto plates, children at the table and in bed during meals. A girl being fed.

Distributed by Amateurfilm Platform.
Video Added: 01.08.2025

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

Types des Indes et de Ceylon
Year: 1913
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Short registration of the indigenous population in what was then British India and Ceylon.
Recordings of life in India. Successively images of children, of the inhabitants of 'Tamoul', of a fortune teller, of 'kandyons', of a group of Indian men who eat the national food 'carry' and of 'Cinghalaise' women.
Video Added: 20.06.2025

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