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Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway in 1952, and Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Olympic flag hoisted during the Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. German bobsled team wins. Ski jump competition during the events. Scene changes to Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. A car in front of the Soviet Russian athlete housing in the Olympic village. Soviet athletes near the car. Emil Zatopek running during a track event. People hold him after he wins the event. Lindy Remigino of New York wins the 100 meter dash. Sprint competition winners on podium. Flags of various countries. Olympic torch in background.

Date: 1952
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035489
Liquor sales resume in Finland after repeal of Prohibition; distilleries in operation; people drinking at bars; bartenders working.

Resumption of liquor sales in Helsinfors (Helsinki) Finland after repeal of Prohibition. Posters of alcohol companies Johnnie Walker, Meukow, Crabbie's and Benedictine on the wall. People standing outside the liquor shops. White Horse Whisky shop is visible. People standing in lines to enter bars and liquor shops. A woman packaging bottles of liquor or wine in brown paper, with racks of bottles stacked behind her. Bar owner opening doors to line of waiting patrons. View of crowded bar while more people wait in line outside to get in. Exterior view with snow falling and people waiting in long lines to buy liquor or go to bars. Next scene shows liquor distillery operations with men loading grain into giant industrial kettle. Wide view of distillery plant operations with many busy workers, some tending kettles and vats, and others carrying barrels. View of a bottling assembly line as workers tap lids onto liquor bottles. Bar filled with patrons waiting to buy drinks. Close up view of bartender's hand pouring a line of drinks from a shaker. Men and women dancing and drinking at bar. Bartender shaking cocktail shaker.

Date: 1932, April 21
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030582
Finnish runner Eino Oksanen wins the Boston Marathon in Boston.

Runners running on wet roads in the 63rd Boston Marathon. 153 runners start their course from Hopkinton, Massachusetts to Exeter Street, Boston. Record holder John Kelley is shadowed by Eino Ilmari Oksanen, a Helsinki Police detective from Finland. Eino Oksanen wins the Boston Marathon and is cheered by a crowd.

Date: 1959, April 20
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047738
A crowd cheers participants during a middle distance running event in Helsinki Stadium

Men runners in middle distance competition.They remove outer clothing in center of stadium and go to the starting line. Competitor wearing number 1 on his jersey, takes early lead and holds it to the end. Photographers capture him crossing the finish line. He walks cooling down and waves to fans in the stands before the rest of the runners arrive at the finish line. Spectators are well dressed and crowd into the protected grandstand section of the stadium. Most of the remainder of the stadium is empty. Some rain falls. Some people hold umbrellas.

Date: 1952
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024174
Juhani Karkinen of Finland wins the World High Ski Jump Championship in Lahti, Finland.

World High Ski Jump Championship in Lahti, Finland. Finland's jumper jumps and slips while landing. A German jumper comes at the fourth position. Another German jumper Helmut Recknagel occupies the third position. Juhani Karkinen of Finland jumps for the first position. An advertisement about the telecast of the Academy Awards.

Date: 1958, March 17
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046945
German forces assist Finland combating Soviet forces in World War II

Gernan involvement in Russo-Finnish war ("Winter War") overlapping with World War II. Opening scene shows map with arrows indicating movement of German forces from Norway, into Finland to help them defend against the Soviets. A sign wreathed in greenery, at the border, reads "Finnland" (in German) and "Suomi" (in Finnish). (Narrator says Finland is no more alone.) Next, a German soldier moves a barrier at the border and German troops on motorcycles, led by a staff car, begin crossing into Finland. They cross a bridge over water. A long line of German trucks, cars and motorcycles moves along a country road. One motorcycle, with sidecar, stops and the two German soldier occupants examine a sign marking the Arctic Circle. A steam locomotive pulling a train leaves a Finnish railroad station. Views from aboard the train as local Finns wave at German soldiers who look out the train windows. Change of scene shows German infantry wading through some snow, (Other places are dry.) They are moving forward and taking up firing positions. Closeup of a German soldier firing his rifle. German gun crew firing a a 7.92mm MG37(t) machine gun. Closeup of the gun firing. German soldiers firing a mortar and the shell exploding in the distance. Closeup of another German gun crew firing an MG37 machine gun. (They are probably from the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord.) Shells exploding as German infantry run forward through light brush. Another 3-man German machine gun crew viewed from behind as they fire their weapon at Soviet positions.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047182