Extraordinary People - The Eight-Limbed Boy

SC 7.3/10 

Date: 17.10.2010
Country: United Kingdom
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, swimming
Description: Six-year-old Deepak was born with an extra body growing out of his chest. His extra set of limbs belong to an identical, parasitic twin that did not fully form or separate from Deepak in the womb. Now his life is in jeopardy.
Video Added: 16.01.2024

Skydda barnen

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Year: 1944
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Propaganda for protective vaccination against diphtheria.
Video Added: 12.01.2024

Sundhedsvæsenet

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Year: 1939
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check
Description: Greenland's health service in 1939. 10 doctors attend to the country's 18,000 inhabitants, partly on trips by motorboats and sleds, partly in 14 hospitals spread over the country, assisted by 16 Danish and 100 Greenlandic nurses. All medical care, medicine and hospital stays are free. The annual expenses of the Greenlandic health service are approx. half a million kroner. At the hospital, the hospital corridors are cleaned. Breakfast is prepared by nursing students. Hallway A Danish doctor gives vaccinations while curious people look on. A doctor traveling by motorboat on the Umanakfjord. A nurse arrives at a settlement. The nurse performs a so-called 'lung breath' against tuberculosis on patients. 2-3 dentists are sent around the country every year to practice dentistry. Life at the children's sanatorium in Umanak. Children are bathed in quartz light.
Video Added: 26.12.2023

Frk. Wagners instruktionsfilm
Year: 1953
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: girl, medical check
Description: The film shows part of the physical treatment of polio: Warm packs, so-called Kennedy packs, are given to relieve the pain and prevent contractures. Concentrated compresses and manipulation of the thorax (chest) are given to make it smoother and thereby facilitate respiration. The packs are changed until the skin is red. Manipulation is given of the entire thorax. A very important step in the treatment of contracture strencks. When the contracture first occurs, the muscles' working capacity is significantly reduced. Therefore, the stretches are started as early as possible, but only until the pain limit and everything after prior warming up. In order that stretching and fixing can take place as correctly as possible, there should be two physiotherapists about the patient. One to fix the patient and one to pull. Stimulation of muscles is performed by the physiotherapist as a light vibration of the muscle group in one direction of movement. Another important part of the treatment is balance exercises. In order to achieve as correct a gait as possible, all patients, regardless of the degree of paralysis, should do balance exercises, i.e. put the weight equally on both legs, keep the pelvis in place and have a good posture. These exercises are also done with two physiotherapists.
Video Added: 08.12.2023

Vårt mål

SC 8.8/10 

Year: 1946
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, swimming
Description: A social democratic election film from 1946. images from Gothenburg and how the social democratic municipal action program and various election manifestos are presented in Gothenburg. Documentary images from the Second World War, the peace -45. Social democratic postwar program.
Video Added: 05.12.2023

Skoalle, 1978-1979
Year: 1978
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: Master explains something to the class. Children play batting ball, then a game with obstacles next to the school. Children working in the classroom. Sailing in a sailboat with an outboard motor. Working in the classroom. Rowing in a boat. Child going to school for the first time, being greeted by the teacher. Children sit in class wearing party hats on the occasion of Sinterklaas and Piet. Parents also present. Children dressed as Saint and Pete. Children skate on natural ice in the harbor of Earnewâld (Eernewoude). Children skate in tandem; car on the ice serves as a snow plow. Images of snow around the school.
Video Added: 01.12.2023

Eventyret om julemærket

SC 9.1/10 

Year: 1956
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp, swimming
Description: Since 1904, a special Christmas stamp has been published every year, which you can affix to your postal items in connection with the Christmas post. The sale of Christmas tags is the basis for the establishment and operation of the Christmas tag homes around Denmark. The purpose of the homes is to house and help vulnerable and particularly needy children. The film shows various recordings from the daily life of seven homes, including Hobro, Juelsminde (closed in 1956), Fjordmark at Flensborg Fjord, Holbølls Minde in Svendborg, Lindersvold, Mørkøv and Kildemose at Frederiksværk. Children's Day consists of, among other things, of teaching, doctor's visits, playing and having fun in the garden with pets, communal dining, light field and garden work, walks and beach trips. At Christmas time, the children frolic in the snow, and on Christmas Eve they dance around the Christmas tree and receive presents from Santa Claus.
Video Added: 07.11.2023

Balletbørn

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Date: 22.12.1991
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Keywords: ballet
Description: For 16 years, DR-TV has followed 24 children who in 1974 and 75 were accepted as students at one of Denmark's most special schools: the Royal Ballet School. In six broadcasts, we follow the children's everyday life to see how many achieve the common goal: to become a royal ballet dancer. The first broadcast depicts the entrance exams, for which around 500 children had signed up.
Video Added: 03.11.2023

Fra Dansk Røde Kors' folkekuranstalt ved Hald
Year: 1950
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: A day at the children's ward. Treatment of polio in stage 2. The children's muscles are weakened after the paralysis. The task of the post-treatment is to train the muscles up to normal strength again. The treatment consists of a number of exercises, including in the pool and tub, lying movement exercises on a bench or in the hospital bed and strength training with machines. Some get electrodes on their body to stimulate the muscles. When the children are not in treatment, there is time for activities such as braiding, weaving, teaching, knitting, doll play, etc. Year unknown.
Video Added: 17.10.2023

Evakuerade från Finland
Year: 1944
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, medical check
Description: In the fall of 1944, thousands of Finns were evacuated across the border to Sweden. Haparanda and Kiruna became large gathering places.
Video Added: 15.09.2023