Harry Lewing

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.

Frustrated housewife Elisabet Avovirta has a spring romance with a younger man, journalist Jaakko Huhtikuu. Love sprinkles in the rays of the spring sun and eventually bubbles over the edges.

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.

Camera moves around the city of Turku. We also pay a visit to Naantali and Airistola.

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.

A commisioned film introducing the icebreaker Sampo

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.

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.

Building and playing a traditional musical instrument.

Building the polar icebreaker Moskva

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.

Presentation of the industrial sections of the 1950 Helsinki Fair at the Helsinki Fair Hall and on the fairgrounds.

Portrait of a sculptor.

Observational examples of the use of hypnosis.

70th anniversary celebrations of the Student Union Singers.

Trade union film portraying dock work

A commisioned film about Finnish import

A commisioned film about Finnish import

Dramatized documentary, providing guidance on traffic safety for children.

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.

Development prospects for bus transport in the early 1950s. The film, directed by Harry Lewing, presents express and local bus services as well as the services of the bus stations in Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti. The film features a staged filler story: the Suomela family goes on holiday in a bus and arrives at the gate of their summer estate...

Dramatized information film about drunk driving. Accident caused by drunk driving, forensic medical research, the effect of alcohol on human functioning.

Independence Day celebrations at the Finnish presidential palace December 6, 1960.

Independence Day celebrations at the Finnish presidential palace December 6, 1960.