Aimo Tukiainen’s equestrian statue of Marshal Mannerheim at Kunsthalle Helsinki. Sokerityttö (‘Sugal Girl’) statue in front of the sugar factory in Töölö. State Railways track inspection car...
President Kekkonen skis to Savonlinna, stopping in Ryhälä and Sulkava. Newspaper Uusi Suomi, 110 years. Chinese Film Week at Hotel Torni, in the Government Banquet Hall and at the Suomi-Filmi screen...
Largest Finnish film venture so far. Planning and first days of photography of Satua Sammosta, a Finnish-Soviet joint production, in July and August of 1957. 32 tonnes of heavy film equipment is trans...
60th birthday of the Finnish Gymnastics and Sports Federation: visit of honour to Hietaniemi cemetery. Complimentary calls on the federation premises in Helsinki. Reception by the Minister of Educatio...
Schools are out for summer. New secondary school graduates. Ceremonial Conferment in the spring of 1960: festivities and an ice-breaker voyage. Karelian Summer Festival in Helsinki: track and field on...
President Kekkonen leaves for Stockholm by air. New sculptures in Kuopio: Hannes Kolehmainen and Kevät (‘Spring’) by Heikki Konttinen. WW2 Memorial in Kiikala. Savings Bank Group, 50 years. Feder...
Mikkeli cross-country skiing competition and ski jumping. Space journey by the American Colonel John Glenn.
The U.S. Air Force Band is in Helsinki at an exhibition of U.S. industries. President Kekkonen leaves on a plane for Austria. Skyblazers, a group of American aerobic pilots, performing in the Helsinki...