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Swedish Family Story (1955)

Reel Number: 221707-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1955

Country: Sweden

Location: stockholm

TC Begins: 23:15:37

TC Ends: 23:28:10

Duration: 00:12:33

Titles 23:15:43 Map of North America, Atlantic & Scandinavia. LS of Stockholm harbor, boats & apartment houses on canal. 23:16:14 Family at dinner table eat soft boiled eggs, milk & coffee. Mr & Mrs. Lindstrom work on family budget; budget in CU showing taxes as largest expense. 23:17:04 Automobile & car leaving. Steel mill, rail tracks, train from mine w/ iron ore & open pit mine. Waterfalls. 23:17:45 Lumber industry & logs on river; men move them to sawmill. 23:18:13 Harbor w/ freighters. 23:18:19 Mrs. Lindstrom leaves apartment building on bicycle for marketing. Traffic w/ trolleys, cars, pedestrians. Consumer cooperative store. Windows of bakery. Outdoor market in front of Concert House & vendor stalls. Flowers in buckets. Excursion boat in harbor and Kings Palace, Town Hall. Narrow streets in “Old Town”. 23:19:55 Parks, people walking, cafe in park. 23:20:10 Children leave on bicycles for school. Playground, older students sit on bench w/ books. Children eating free lunch in cafeteria. Girls doing gymnastics; boys playing soccer or football on paved playing ground. Organized soccer match in park. Couple outdoors, skiers climbing snowfield and skiing. 23:21:46 Nurse holding baby outdoors, kids play on playground of state nursery. George Eastman’s clinic for dental work. Woman dentist treating young boy in large room. 23:22:27 LS rural town; Lindstroms visit parents and relatives in farming village. Scything grass by hand outside wooden house or cabin. Young geese, lambs, calves beside lake. Haying on lakeside slope by horse pulled mower, men and boys raking and hanging hay to dry. Other crops shown. Picking potatoes behind tractor. 23:24:11 Church boat racing on river w/ many rowers per boat. 23:24:28 Midsummer Night raising of May Pole in town square and wearing National Costume. Leather aprons worn by men; fiddlers play as men dance “Oxen Dance.” Couples dancing. 23:25:22 Lucia tradition w/ oldest daughter wearing candles in hair out of darkness in light. Old woman spinning yarn outdoors; three work looms indoors. Fabric shown. 23:26:05 Modern furniture shown, silver, pewter & glassmaking. Glass blown & shaped. 23:26:48 Lindstroms at dinner eating meat balls, carrots & some appetizers or smorgasbord. 23:27:31 Girl looking at comics, boy takes books & food to room to study. 23:27:56 Views of city. The End Nordic Cultures; Socialism; Family Life; Sociology; Recreation; Ethnic; 1955; 1950s; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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