Christmas 1968 in Stockholm. Many people work and advocate for an alternative Christmas. People get together to socialise at the College of Arts, Crafts and Design and other places; people talk, paint...
July 13, 1897. Logårdstrappan steps, 11:50. The Vasaorden arrives. King Oscar II steps ashore, turns around and kisses the King of Siam on the cheek. They walk to the left. Crown Prince Gustaf and al...
The funeral of Count Walther von Hallwyl, 1921. The coffin is taken from Hallwyl House at Hamngatan 4 in Stockholm to St. Gertrude’s Church (‘the German Church’) in Stockholm Old Town. This sil...
A comic little film sketch shot by German film pioneer Max Skladanowsky outside the current entrance to Skansen, 1896. The film’s title "Komische Begegnung im Tiergarten zu Stockholm" roughly transl...
A film about Skandinaviska Filmcentralen, a film company started by Lars Björck in 1915, later incorporated into Svensk Filmindustri following bankruptcy in 1922. A group of men and women of differe...
There have been engine-driven ambulances in Stockholm since the early 1910s, but long into the 1920s horse-drawn carriages were more commonly used to transport patients who were lying down. Here, a pr...
Some gentlemen outside the Continental hotel in Stockholm. Formation of Sveriges Biografägareförbund (cinema owners’ association). Chairman Lars Bergström. This silent film is shown with musical...
The Swedish branch of Save the Children (founded November 1919) arranged a ‘linen Sunday’ to benefit children in Vienna on 25 January 1920. The film shows children in a wind band in front of the R...