Kansatieteellinen Filmi

A well-known documentary by Eino Mäkinen (1908-1987), produced by Ethnological Film, describes the ancient process of making ruuh using a Stone Age method by hollowing out aspen logs. This is a 1950 re-release of "Elettiinpä ennenkin - ruuhen synty" (We lived before - the birth of ruuh), narrated by Carl-Erik Creutz. The original version has not survived to this day.

An ethnographic film about clearing land for cultivation with the slash-and-burn agriculture method.

An ethnographic film depicting the harvest and threshing of grain in Veteli.

Kalajoki: Kallankarit in the Gulf of Bothnia.

An ethnographic documentary about Nivala's haymaking.

The surviving parts give a powerful picture of the work and livelihood of the reindeer Sámi, which was a living reality during the filming. Mäkinen wonderfully depicts the reindeer Sámi of Käsivarre and the life of thousands of reindeer on the fells.

Ethnographic images of the millet festival, the village swing, grain spreading and violin playing.

Karelian village life from 1935-39. Pressing the soil (Impilahdi Metsäkylä), tying the forest (Salmi), cutting the scythe (Impilahdi Metsäkylä), the village shepherd with his herd in the early morning (Salmi Varpaselkä), the Työmpäisten sacrificial cemetery (Salmi Mantsinsaari), visiting the scythes (Salmi Mantsinsaari), making scythes (Suistamon Tuomilampi), washing and rinsing laundry with a "poalikoima", tying clothes and spinning on a spindle.

An ethnographic film about tar burning.

An ethnographic documentary about crafts made with an axe and a knife. The documentary includes images of carving fence posts, axe handles, wooden nails, and the making of leather shoes.

A young birch is selected from the forest as a class tree. Class trees are pulled into the canopy with a sledgehammer. The drying sauna smokes. Class trees are bent in a press using ropes tied to the ends of the tree and a rotating press. A close-up of a whip loop attached to the end of the class tree. Class finishing, bark removal with a metal blade and a plane. Class is attached to a harness. Pair of horses harrowing.

Church boat racing, discus throwing, swing, strength and skill games. The film was originally planned for the 1940 Summer Olympics. The actual film was partially destroyed during the war years.

Juha Tiisjärvi, a 79-year-old coppersmith from Nurmo, casts and finishes small bells in her workshop.

Ethnographic images of Karelian village life, fishing, and the Praasnieka.

Images of folk-style strength training exercises and boys rowing a reed boat in an ethnographic documentary.

Herring seine fishing in Rymättylä in the summer.