Från glada laxars land

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Year: 1939
Country: Sweden
Section: documentary
Tags: girl
Description: Pictures from Halmstad, including from the bicycle factory where they make pedal horses with hand-painted speed lines. As well as pictures from Laholm and Tylösand, where the residents live on equal parts agriculture and summer tourists. And the summer tourists are equal parts salty baths and cute girls.
Video Added: 29.11.2024

Det Forsvundne Hobro
Year: 1934
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: A film about Hobro in the old days. 1930-1934.
Video Added: 01.10.2024

Strandfeest - Kitzbühel 1936
Year: 1936
Country: Netherlands
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Video Added: 30.08.2024

Med Svenska Camping-klubben på weekend
Year: 1930
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: Camping in Skåne.
Video Added: 14.06.2024

Baskemölla Simsällskap
Year: 1939
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, summer camp, sunbathing, swimming
Description: Swimming competitions in Baskemölla harbor in 1939. Swimming school in Kivik.
Video Added: 19.04.2024

Julemærkefilmen

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Year: 1939
Country: Denmark
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl, medical check, summer camp, sunbathing
Description: 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. Many of the Christmas tag children come from the big cities. Funds may be tight here, and the children may be left to fend for themselves and life in the wretched backyards. At the Christmas mark homes, they can receive care, fresh air and get back to work after illness. The film follows daily life at the various Christmas mark homes in Denmark: Lindersvold in Faxe, the Mørkøv home in Northwest Zealand, Fjordmark by Flensborg Fjord, Holbølls Minde by Svendborg, the Hobro home by Mariager Fjord and the Christmas mark home in Juelsminde.
Several of the recordings can also be seen in the film 'The Christmas Tag Film' from 1949.
Video Added: 09.04.2024

Mir kumen on

SC 6.7/10 

Year: 1938
Country: Poland
Section: documentary
Tags: bathing, boy, girl
Description: One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium which stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.
Video Added: 02.04.2024

Søvang I
Year: 1939
Country: Denmark
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl
Description: Southwest of the old Dutch town Store Magleby lies Søvang, a smiling summer town. The film presents the town's small villas with well-tended gardens, new roads, a pumping station, the cooperatively owned bathhouse and bathing bridge. Both children and adults enjoy themselves in the idyllic surroundings, play, play ball, sunbathe or jump into the water from the bathing bridge. The board of the Landowners' Association holds a meeting in the open air.
Video Added: 15.03.2024

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

Borås
Year: 1938
Country: Sweden
Section: chronicle
Tags: boy, girl, swimming
Description: A few glimpses from the industrial city by Viskan, a film about Borås in 1937. Pictures from the garment industry, private home construction, Ramnasjön and Ramnaparken.
Video Added: 06.10.2023