Nordic Heritage Museum Film Collection, approximately 1939-1972

SAS airplanes are shown multiple times as a mode of transportation to arrive in Sacndinavia. Once in Scandinavia, this film features streets, architecture, statues, guards, sporting activites (equestrian, rowing, golf, water sports, and skeet), festivals, livestock, water ways, mountains, and urban areas.

A flight from Oslo, Norway into the USSR takes the tourists into the heart of the country where they see the city streets from car and helicopter. They stop in Moscow, visting numerous buildings and museums. The film focuses on local sports, ballet, and evening festivities. The tourists explore beaches and aerial views of the country. They also feed a group of monkeys. The tourists then move from this tropical environment to a campsite.

The film begins by showing Copenhagen's attractions, including a large church, advertising the city as a stop on the "way to a holy land experience." The film then explores the streets of a Middle Eastern town, including many aerial perspectives.

Opens with a view of the water running through a small city and a man bringing hay into town. Views of a small town with fjords and mountains in the background. People partake in recreation activities such as swimming, fishing, and boating. People wearing traditional clothes tend to herds of animals. People move through Stockholm by boat, car, and foot. People in the city take part in water-based recreational acitivities. Guards march back and forth through the city. Images of food and art from various Scandinavian countries.

This film highlights Scandinavia, showing: people commuting by car, bicycle, and foot; commodities, including fashion and toys; various product lines from factory to home; nightlife and fireworks; industrial work to build cars, planes, boats, and civil buildings; leisure activites such as theater, women's group exercise, sail boating, rowing, traditional dance and music, and snow spots; the natural life of reindeer, rivers, and fishing.

The film shows differences between the Scandinavian countries, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Scenes inside various factories and warehouses, including the Volvo factory in Copenhagen. Cars, bikes, and pedestrians move across cities. Cargo ships move on the sea.

People eat and play games on a Swedish-American cruise. They visit a restaurant, swim in a pool, and visit hairdressers available onboard the ship. Views of a city's of nightlife and cultural events. The narrator discusses the foods of Sweden, with emphasis on baked goods. Children play in a park. At a festival there is dancing, food, and decorations. Scenes of people working and relaxing in various cities. The film concludes with natural views of animals, mountains, and trees.

The history and predicted future of aviation is expressed through dance.

Scenes of nature in Scandinavia, including views of various animals, landscapes, hiking, food, shops, tennis, golf, horseback riding, sunbathing, panning for gold, fishing, and white water rafting.

The film opens with images of sailing vessels interspersed with images of new boats and SAS airplanes. The film moves through numerous views of Scandinavia and local towns. Modern ships are shown, including the Malmo.

Two people load a Kodak moving picture camera with batteries. They then try on winter clothing. Images of maps and airplanes show places visited in the film. Various images of Scandinavian areas and activities, including views of sailboating, glassblowing, modern cityscapes, folk festivals, hay harvesting, shipbuilding, woodworking, pottery painting, pastry making, Lego manufacturing, bicycle riding, fishing and farming, families skiing, children skiing to school, various skiing situations, and ski jumping.

The film begins with an aerial view of Stockholm followed by varied views of the city. People sit in coffee shops near the sea and watch men on the boats unload cargo. People commute around the city via tram, car, bicycle, or train. Guards stand outside of buildings. During the winter, children run around in the snow. Snow is shoveled out of the city streets using wheelbarrows and is dumped into the water. In the country people go on on sleigh rides, ski, sled, and ice skate. People are shown visiting parks and other natural areas. Families plant trees, clean their boats for the season, pick apples, and bird watch. The summer beaches are full of children and families.

The film focuses on six different popular industries in Sweden: farming, logging, mining, metal, pottery, and glass blowing.

The film examines both work and play in Sweden. Images of Swedish people working as farmers, naval men, or in factories are interspersed with images of parties, sports, and lounging.

The film depicts travel through Sweden's countryside and cities via train, plane, and car. The citites visited include Gothenburg, Gota Canal, Vadstena Castle, Stockholm, Old Uppsala, and Visby.

Swedish youth are shown participating in popular activities, such as stretching, swimming, boating, aerobics, acrobatics, pole vault, hurdles, dashes, javelin, rowing, and gymnastics.

This film features explains common child raising texhniques in Sweden. This includes care packages for parents offered after birth as well as the subjects students are taught in school. Students are shown learning home skills, personal hygiene, health skills, and how to care for each other.

The film depicts part of a Swedish royal procession.

The film visits different landscapes of Sweden, including estates, beaches, castles, towns, industrial communities, and the Northern arctic.

The film begins with a map of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, before highlighting the Lappland region. The film focuses on Lappland's landscape and the relationship between local peoples and their surroundgins. Locals use reindeer herds and dogs to help with tasks, such as felling trees and guarding the community. Other traditional living methods are shown in this film.

The Sofia Girls are an acrobatic and gymnastic group in Scandinavia. In the film, they perform dances and tricks.

A man discusses different objects in a Swedish shop, explaining their relation to various aspects of Swedish life, such as reindeer herding, boating, nature, skiing, logging, festivals, glass blowing, pottery, mining, farming, and city life.

A SAS flight brings groups of people to Sweden to participate in various local traditions. It includes images from a Saint Lucia procession, Christmas traditions, beaches, ski slopes, food, glass blowing, and dancing.

A Swedish lodge offers pool side relaxation, cultural dances, feasts, screen printing, rowing, an outdoor theater, local livestock, sking, and hiking.

The film shows diverse landscapes of Sweden, focusing on beaches, forests, cities, countryside, and industrial areas.

Stockholm is shown to be a modern city of tall buildings, shops, and friendly people.

People prepare for a skiing competition. The cross country skiing starts and people cheer as the racers depart. Out in snowy areas people sit by a fire and make food. The winners of the cross country ski competition are interviewed by the media. Afterwards, the spectators move to a ski jump competition. The winner signs autographs and is interviewed.

The film explores Norwegian leisure activities, industrial endeavors, home life, festivals, politics, and the differences between city and rural living.

This film spends a day in an unidentified Scandinavian country exploring traditional clothing and architecture, activities such as log balancing and sweat lodging, industries such as glass blowing and arts, and the local nightlife.

This film begins with a description of Scandinavian culture. The film then uses Norway as an example of broad trends in Scandinavia. Scenes of tourists experiencing both city and country life. The tourists visit markets and boat along the water ways. Examples of daily food, industry, and fashion are shown as well.

This film examines skiing as an acitivity, including jumps and tricks, as well as cabins in which the skiiers lodge, their nighttime activities, and the towns they tend to visit.

Al Wallace hosts the film, which features many different Scandinavian countries and the activities that can be done in each. This includes people watching, eating pastries, drinking alcohol, traditional viking reenactments, and carnivals.

The film explores the unique aspects various towns in Spain, focusing on Madrid, Pamplone, Costa Brays, Tarragona, Seville, Puerto de Santa Maria, Soria Segovia, Mollorca y Allava. The cultural elements examined include bull fighting, traditional dress and dance, street artists, costal cliffs, parks, and fields with sheep.

The film first shows the island of Mallorca, Spain and features the beaches nestled between clifts, art museums, nightlife, hotels, architecture, blow glass, and caves with hanging stalagmite. The next island that is visited is Menorca which has buildings built into the sides of cliffs and offers activities such as: sun bathing, boating, dining, cave exploring, scuba diving, and painting. The documentary was filmed at various loaction across three islands: Mallorca, Menorca, and Ibiza.

This tourist film features a resort town which offers clubs, vistas, beaches, the Sierra Nevada in Spain, donkey rides, bull fights, and golf.

This film depicts the life on a farm. A family tends to the animals and does chores around the house.

This short film features the process of going to church early in the morning, before the sun has risen, while snow blankets the ground.

This short film depicts a young boy and his love for boats. He creates small wooden ships, toy sailboats, and works on a real boat by cleaning and painting it.

The Saint Lucia procession begins with a line of women, all dressed in white and holding candles, followed by one woman wearing a wreath of candles on her head. The process of assembling the candles and wreathes is shown. Young boys and girls wear white gowns and pointed caps and eat cookies during the Lucia Celebration. Also featured are the floats at the Lucia parade and the process of making lefsa.

This film focuses on how Sweden celebrates Christmas, including the Lucia Celebration, decorations, gifts, meals, church, and Santa Claus.

This autobiographical short film details the daily life of a teenage girl in Sweden. This includes activities such as breakfast with her family, walking to school, her classes, playing hockey and performing aerobics in gym class, activities such as horseback riding, skiing, and swimming, attending the school doctor, going to a cafe with her friends, doing her homework while listening to records, and attending a party.

This film follows a group of skiiers as they ski their way through different Norwegian landscapes.

The film takes place in the mountain resort town of Voss. Families arrive and travel up the mountain. The film's protagonist struggles to find her balance on the slopes, but acts more comfortably as she shops and interacts with other visitors. Skiing exhausts her and she ends the day by relaxing in the snow, being entertained by the other skiiers.

The film depicts the waterways of Stockholm, explaining their industrial and aesthetic functions.

Using both animation and live action, this film highlights the process that different animal based products go through in order to reach the Danish market. Various tests are undertaken, focusing on either taste or collecting scientific information.