Van Brokken en Afval - deel 4
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, swimming
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 4. Compilation of films and raw footage from the period 1927-1939. Better than a bathhouse: sailing on a ditch, children in a boat and in the water, a boy in a kayak, boys diving and swimming. The Iron Man near 's-Hertogenbosch: a small lake with a sailboat. Launching a balloon in the stadium in Amsterdam: a huge balloon with a man on a basket underneath it in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. A practical school desk for outdoor education, Cergnat 1927, Switzerland: children with a pack on their back that can be folded out into a table and chair, lessons in the open air. Zaandijk in 1920: no footage, only the title on screen. Free and order exercises at a school in Switzerland: schoolchildren doing exercises on a sports field. The youth of Kattenburg have their own swimming pool: sign Groote Kattenburgerstraat - Centrum, Mariniersplein, children in the water, adults watch from a bridge, children dive from a bridge, boys on a floating raft. They have a magnificent diving tower: boys dive from a bridge, play and hang under the bridge, children get dressed. Shot put: boys compete in a shot put competition (Switzerland). Dikkie tries to catch fish: a boy tries to catch fish by hand. Ice rink in Bloemendaal 1931: old and young skate, including in a train and swaying, a woman does a pirouette and falls. An unusual dancer in an unusual setting, Cergnat, Switzerland 1927: a girl dances on a carpet while other children watch and applaud. The Doorwerd wave pool near Arnhem 1935. The pool empty: shots of an empty pool. Full: a swimming pool filled with water and visitors. The first waves: waves in the pool with swimmers and bathers, people holding on to ropes stretched across the pool. Make yourself comfortable: a boy doing exercises with a physiotherapist. Triplets in the stadium: a cycling race with three-person bicycles in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

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Video Added: 15.08.2025

Van Brokken en Afval - deel 3
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Description: From Bits and Pieces Part 3. Compilation of films and raw footage from the period 1927-1939. Children love to play near and with water: children playing with water and sand on the beach, a boy sailing a toy sailboat on a string, boys fishing, a boy playing with a tub in the water, a boy playing with a dog in the water, a boy sailing on a raft, children with shorts pulled up in the water, children playing with sand, children on the beach, a water fight in a swimming pool. Barrels are checked for leaks: a man fills a barrel with hot water using a bucket and a funnel, a barrel is shaken back and forth to clean it, the barrel is hit, a leak is caulked with cotton wool. Filled with hot grease: a barrel is filled and rolled to a boat, a fully loaded boat sails. A sprinkler keeps the barrel cool: a boat with a sprinkler and wet barrels. A view of a gallery from Dr. Rollier in Leysin, Switzerland, 19..: children in rows of beds in the sun. A stretch bandage: a boy in a bed with a leg in a splint. Ice hockey rink in Haarlem, 19..: men's ice hockey game with an audience. A jump over 10 boys: a man dives over a row of ten boys after a jump from a springboard, landing on a cushion. Bleeding from the ulnar artery (high sling): applying a bandage and sling to a man. When Amsterdam's youth are hot: children playing in a shallow pool, children on a sandy beach near a residential area, a small bridge over the water, children eating ice cream.

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Video Added: 08.08.2025

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

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

On vacation - to Evpatoria!
Date: 14.08.1980
Country: Soviet Union
Section: reportage
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp
Description: News. Broadcast on August 14, 1980
Video Added: 07.02.2025

Het zeehuis - Centraal genootschap kindervacantiekolonies
Year: 1939
Country: Netherlands
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Description: The sea house - Central society children's holiday colonies.
The film of Dick Laan is not entirely finished due to the pre-mobilization on August 24, 1939. The sea house had to be evacuated immediately.
Video Added: 27.12.2024

Dage på Skærven

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Year: 1980
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Description: The film depicts the everyday life of children with diabetes during their stay at the National Association for Diabetes' children's holiday colony 'Skærven' in Nyborg. Scenes from the children's play, bathing and sports alternate with scenes from insulin administration, urine tests and meals, and show the daily rhythm of the holiday colony, where regularity and control are effortlessly combined with the children's natural play. The film shows us how the children and their parents learn to live with diabetes.
Video Added: 06.12.2024

Honkien keskellä...
Year: 1948
Country: Finland
Section: documentary
Tags: boy, summer camp, swimming
Keywords: scouting
Description: The big camp of the Finnish Boy Scout Organization in Vierumäki.
Video Added: 24.09.2024

Detskiy sanatoriy. Vremya
Date: 10.08.1977
Country: Soviet Union
Section: reportage
Tags: boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Video Added: 12.09.2024

Kinderen naar buiten
Year: 1928
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp
Description: Propaganda film in three parts for Kinabu, a The Hague based charity that sends sick or underweight city children to recuperate in the countryside.
Video Added: 09.07.2024