Finlandia Kuva

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.

The war documentary Rivilotta (1943), directed by Turo Karto, was filmed in the winter of 1941-42. The film, produced by the Finnish Defence Forces, presents the goals of the Lotta Svärd organization and the different aspects of the Lotta Svärd's work.

Ruins of St. Olav's Monastery in Turku, paintings revealed under the plaster. Paintings by artist Nikolai Kaario. Yläne Manor, pictures found in the manor.

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.

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 fishing party in the Gulf of Finland, fishing for pike with a casting lure in the outer archipelago.

War reparations industry. Schooner manufacturing in Rauma at Holming Oy's shipyard.

A housewife, toiling in the kitchen, goes to explore the Työtehoseurua exhibition held at the Messuhalli, which showcases gas stoves, refrigerators, washing machines and Asko furniture.

Domestic products are presented in the exhibition hall.

Spending the summer in Helsinki, Tampere and Naantali - in the water and on dry land.

A moving and passionate documentary about March 20, 1948, when the Finnish delegation left for Moscow to negotiate the YYA agreement under the leadership of Prime Minister Mauno Pekkala. The seriousness of the situation can be felt concretely, as the delegation is seen off at the Helsinki railway station by the entire nation in miniature. "And so the train left, taking the negotiating delegation to its important mission."

An inland waterway boat trip in Central Finland, described from the perspective of a regional presentation.

Fishing, rafting, floating, log cabins.

Reconstruction and war damage after the Lapland War.

After the men returned from the front, the country had to be rebuilt, the displaced population had to be resettled, and large war reparations had to be paid. The return to peace was difficult, but the Finnish people coped with it honorably through joint efforts.

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

Car exhibition at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Center in 1952.

Fishing village by the Gulf of Bothnia

A short film about the work and private life of the Prime Minister, made in honor of J. K. Paasikivi's 75th birthday.

Pictures from Central Ostrobothnia from cultural and economic perspectives.