Spring Fair opening. Visiting Comédie-Française actors at a reception at the National Theatre in Helsinki (among the guests President Paasikivi and Prime Minister Kekkonen). Basketball match: Harlem...
Floods in Pori. Retailers’ international poster exhibition at the Helsinki School of Economics. International weightlifting competition at the Helsinki Exhibition Hall. Eleventh boxing championships...
The ambassador of Great Britain meets with the president. Suomi hymyilee (‘Finland Smiles’), a tourist film produced by Suomi-Filmi, was awarded a prize in Italy: Risto Orko (1899-2001), Orvo Saar...
American film crew in Finland making a tourist film in colour. Technology students mark the 60th birthday of industrialist Wilhelm Wahlforss by offering him a helicopter flight from his villa in Toppe...
Opening of the new children’s home of the Child Care Society in Töölö, Helsinki. Ice swimming demonstration in Humallahti Bay, Helsinki. Opening of a geriatric research and advice centre at the I...
Marathon walk, Finland v. Sweden at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Football match, Finland v. Brazil, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Finland’s first cat show at Kunsthalle Helsinki. Padasjoki Natural Park....