Yrjö Haapanen

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.

A comedic information film from the Ministry of Finance. A barrage of questions from a reporter led by Lasse Pöysti reveals where inflation is lurking.

Katariina, an orphaned girl from the north, travels to Helsinki to live with her distant relative Mauri, who has been appointed her guardian. The unpretentious child of nature irritates, amuses, and charms Mauri, who is accustomed to high society, and his bachelor friends.

Tourists traveling on a cargo ship.

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.

A commisioned film about Finnish import

The introductory film of the Finnish Transport Workers' Union contains images of the union's activities and the transportation of goods using various vehicles, as well as the unloading and loading of cargo.

Presentation of the Turin Crafts Museum.

Overview of the work stages of mechanical cable manufacturing at the Helsinki Cable Factory.

Exploration of ores found in Finnish soil.

The short documentary Holiday Days on Teno, wonderfully filmed by the Grand Old Man of Lapland films, Aimo Jäderholm (b. 1916), is a dream come true for every fly fisherman and salmon hunter. The film's salmon adventure is based on "Palto Rantteella" in Karigasniemi in late July 1948. From there, the fishing guests, "the stout police chief of Kuopio and other southern crows", set off to catch salmon. Aleksanteri, a skolt from Petsamo, was the rower, and "it was already good enough for others to row, when he himself had pulled a 23-kilogram körilä and much more besides".

Consumer goods fair in Tampere 1-9 July 1950.

Holger Harrivirta and Aimo Jäderholm follow the 25 reindeer tracks assembled by Aslak Juuso on their journey from Kaaresuvanto to Kilpisjärvi in ​​the spring of 1948. The camera's images don't just show the spring sunshine, they also capture a sudden snowstorm brought by the changing weather. But the reindeer can withstand all the weather in Lapland, "the reindeer is so wild that it doesn't even learn its name". The journey continues on the ice of Kilpisjärvi past the sacred Saana, Pohjola rides reindeer...

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

Documentary about hydrography at the Baltic Sea

Adalbert "Mussu" Koikkalainen inherits 9,000 marks from his uncle. To buy a milk shop, Koikkalainen needs another thousand marks and work experience, so he applies for a job at the department store Sampo, where he is hired as a scapegoat to receive customer complaints. The saleswoman Irja Salo, who is under threat of dismissal, falls in love with the general manager Vaara, whom she thinks is a traveling salesman.

Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian Lapland.

Photos of restaurants from the outside and inside the restaurant halls. Wanha-Hokki on the corner of Yrjönkatu. Pikku-Hokki on City-kuja. Keski-Hokki on Esplanadi. Pika-Pala restaurant in Sokos-talo. The last episode also introduces the modern kitchen of the newly opened restaurant.

An agricultural documentary about Lapland. The documentary discusses the operations of the Muddusniemi experimental farm and the adaptation of Lapland's special conditions to agriculture.

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.

A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.

Documentary about Finnish zoo.

Construction of competition venues for the Summer Olympics.

Reconstruction, operations of Suomen Huolto.

In the film, the summer vacation is spent hiking, swimming, eating at a restaurant, doing haymaking and tending to the vegetable garden.

A documentary about the forestry work in Lapland during the war reparations years. Finland's expensive green gold is being harvested in a snowy winter. Finland is the most forested country in Europe, there is an ever-increasing workforce, the work is hard, the food is delicious, sweat comes off the muscles. The horse is a tough colleague, but there are both "fighters" and "bombers" in the convoy. Kämp has a sharp head for the management and a dull head for the crew, and there is guaranteed to be a sauna in every one.

Consumer goods fair in Tampere 1-9 July 1950.

A successful doctor moves back to her home village and notices severe flaws in its health services.

A successful doctor moves back to her home village and notices severe flaws in its health services.