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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.
Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard times when their father was in the forced labour camp. He was a lunatic.
A documentary about the seal hunting practices amid pack ice on the Gulf of Finland
Tuulikki Tenho, who lied about her marital status to get a job as a secretary at a timber company, has to pretend that she is married to Yrjö Aaltonen, an architect she has just met. A romance begins to blossom between the couple, but it is revealed that Yrjö is already engaged to Virva Lieki, a dancer returning to Finland from abroad.
The first expedition of geographer and geologist Väinö Auer (1895-1981) to the Land of Fire in 1928-29. A cultural anthropological documentary, including the natural disasters that are so commonplace to us: the state of the birdlife (what species have disappeared), overfishing, forest destruction. The Lönnrot Glacier is also visited.
Building the polar icebreaker Moskva
Presentation of the industrial sections of the 1950 Helsinki Fair at the Helsinki Fair Hall and on the fairgrounds.
Camera moves around the city of Turku. We also pay a visit to Naantali and Airistola.
Observational examples of the use of hypnosis.
A commisioned film about Finnish import
Building and playing a traditional musical instrument.
The Olympic film presents the broadcasting of the Helsinki Olympic Games to Finland and abroad. The temporary radio center built at the Olympic Stadium for the Games is described as the largest in the world. The film also shows the lighting of the Olympic flame and covers the sports such as diving, canoeing, cycling, steeplechase and marathon.
A film about how jewelry telegrams convey health to children. Care for premature babies, the opening of the Christmas Sign Home, children with brain damage in the yard of the Children's Palace, graduation ceremonies of a childcare school, a traveling dental clinic, children on the beach.
Dramatized documentary, providing guidance on traffic safety for children.
Opening of the Helsinki Fair at the Helsinki School of Economics. President Paasikivi visits the exhibition in the Fair Hall. Presentation of the various sections.
Presentation of the factory facilities of the Metal Industry Group Fiskars Oy, the production of iron and steel, and machine shop operations.
A commisioned film introducing the icebreaker Sampo
Portrait of a sculptor.
Trade union film portraying dock work
A rare musical compilation, a Finnish dance film from the early 1950s, the first performances of Latin music and dance in Finland. Rumba and samba are performed by Rytmi-Veikko, Kalevi Huuskonen and Sacy Sand. The dances are directed by Veikko Niemelä and performed by the dance couple Olavi and Eeva Nieminen.
