International children’s camp at Laakasalo in Loppi: children arrive at the airport and at the Olympic Pier in Helsinki. Drawing, getting to know one another, games, swimming, singing, dancing, pict...
Sports events in 1962: Zakopane World Championships in cross-country skiing, World Championships in biathlon in Hämeenlinna, Lahti Ski Games, Finnish Championships in figure skating in Mikkeli, Finla...
Centenary exhibition of the painter Eero Järnefelt at Kunsthalle Helsinki. World Championship in pipe smoking to Finland. Börje Rajalin won the 7,000 dollar Fredrik Lunning award of Scandinavian des...
Finnish Olympic team leaves for the Innsbruck Winter Olympics. Technology students’ choir visiting President Kekkonen. Winter sports exhibition in a department store in Helsinki. Wright brothers’ ...
Finnish Olympic team returns from the Innsbruck Winter Olympics: at Helsinki Seutula Airport, reception by the president at Tamminiemi, Kankkonen and Mäntyranta receive distinctions in the Government...
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Finland: arrival at Helsinki Airport, visiting Prime Minister Lehto, talks at the Presidential Palace, visit to the grave of former President Paasikivi. Japanese dol...
Funeral of Unto-Pekka Matikainen, the Finnish soldier who was killed in Cyprus, at the Hietaniemi cemetery. Press conference of the national peatland forest competition at Oulunsalo in Helsinki (KOP b...
Midsummer in the country and in the city. City dwellers travel to the countryside to enjoy midsummer sauna amongst the aroma of birch and rowan. Outdoor dance floors create the right mood for people o...