Holger Harrivirta

Based on Finnish mythology; Lemminkäinen woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her brother to build for her a Sampo, a magical device that creates salt, grain, and gold. When Lemminkäinen fails to recover the Sampo, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness.

A first part of a documentary on the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

A second part of a documentary covering the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

The film depicts Finland's actions in the Winter War and Continuation War using a compilation of material collected from narrators, map images, and TK photographers.

Documentary footage from the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

This Finlandia Survey compilation ranges from 1949 to 1961, and in it we get to see glimpses of news from both local matches and early international matches. The brave Finns play against the infamous Soviet Red Machine, Canada, and a team of journalists.

Master composer Jean Sibelius turned 80 on December 8, 1945. He was not an easy case for filmmakers, as his world had long been closed to outsiders. He was associated with prestige, age and respect. However, Sibelius agreed to make a film in the autumn of 1945. Jean and Aino Sibelius are only seen briefly in the film.

A touching documentary directed by Holger Harrivirta (1915-86) about Finnish children, about 70,000 of whom were sent to Sweden during the war years. The film's train of war children arrives from the Karelian Isthmus in the summer of 1944, travels via Kuopio and Haparanda to Stockholm. In Haparanda, there is a sauna and a medical examination, as well as a check of the surrender papers. Another batch of Karelian war children travels via Helsinki and Vaasa to Umeå in the summer of 1944.

Educational short film in which an innocent young woman goes to a party and is pressured by a sleazy lothario into drinking too much.

Fishing village by the Gulf of Bothnia

Manufacturing of agricultural machinery at Wärtsilä Group Oy's Taali and Pietarsaari factories; product demonstration and maintenance of new machinery at the test farm.

Pictures from Central Ostrobothnia from cultural and economic perspectives.

"Once upon a time, a chimney sweep could get his cheek stuffed with cum..." A film about the Strengberg Oy tobacco factory in Pietarsaari, which was founded in 1762. Since 1842, it has been the largest tobacco factory in the Nordic countries, and in 1946, it employed a couple of thousand female employees. The film depicts the production of cigars and cigarettes, which is largely done by traditional handcraft. The factory's social activities are also described.

An educational film about the creation and development of the elderly care and national pension system, as well as a report on the operations of the National Pension Service.

The schooner Uljas on its final voyage

The morning program begins with a good day greeting from the film's narrator, Count Baron Carl-Erik Creutz. After this, commentators Pekka Tiilikainen and Eero Leväluoma and announcers Matti Tamminen and Kaisu Puuska, among others, join the campaign. "Uncle Markus" Rautio and parliamentary reporter Leo Meller also testify to the breadth of the program. The film moves from the room of program director Jussi Koskiluoma to the studios and workshops, until the camera has to face the director general at a session of the program council. The popular "Mini Parliament" gets a place when the "Radio Discussion Club", which has been meeting since the summer of 1945, lets its candidates elected by parliamentary power be heard by all the people, led by SKDL's Hella Wuolijoki.

The twenty-minute Santa's Workshop was turned into a two-minute trailer, with which Suomi-Filmi Oy also presented its Christmas greetings.

Poisoning caused by car carbon monoxide poisoning and its prevention and treatment.

The Coalition's election film. Episodes of a grandfather and a young man discussing the ideas and politics of the time on a "Sunday walk" are shown as a frame story. In addition, a speech by the chairman of the Coalition's parliamentary group, Arvo Salminen, about the party's goals.

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