Oslo Kinematografer

Film that encourages Oslo citizens to participate actively in Kulturuken 1966 (16-23 September). Glimpse of theater, opera, cinema, concerts, art collections.

Oslo has its own sanitation. This film shows what tasks workers in the sanitation have.

The Lunden monastery is a Dominican convent established in Oslo 1952, and is the only contemplative monastery in Norway.

A film about faces, about expressions, about situations. The film is based on a poem by the Danish poet Poul Borum. The recordings are made in the Munch Museum in Oslo and based on the faces of Munch's pictures.

Short documentary on Obos, a building cooperative in Oslo.

Oslo City Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1955. This film, made a year prior to the anniversary, shows us 900 years of Oslo's history using models, paintings and old footage.

Jordal Amfi was an indoor ice hockey stadium that was built in Oslo, to host the 1952 Winter Olympics. This film shows how the arena was being prepared, to it was finished and opened in 1951 for said Olympics.

Documentary on Norwegian art.

Oslo Municipality has many child welfare works, including orphanages, a tuberculosis home in Åkebergveien, Fagerholm, Breidablikk, and holiday colonies at Slagen by Åsgårdstrand.

At Slagen, Hudøy and several other places, Oslo Municipality drove holiday colonies where children from the city could vacation in the summer. At Dal there was a separate holiday colony for tuberculosis-infested children. Some children were also sent for holiday stays on farms. More than 5,000 children received a stay at municipal or private holiday colonies every summer.

A new hotel has been build in Oslo, and lies in the middle of the city like an adventure castle.

We follow the Akerselva from Puttmyrene where it starts, through Nordmarka, Maridalen, Sagene, Grünerløkka and all the way down to the outlet in the Oslofjord.

How would Oslo have looked like without any of its famous landmarks? Would it look like an overgrown village? We are joining a stroll in the East and West, in distinctive places tourist rarely see, like Vålerenga, Damstredet and Homannsbyen.

Here, on a continuous basis, the city's sculptures are displayed, while a narrator tells us everything we need to know about it.

The City Hall of Oslo has its unique artistic decoration.

This is Oslo Kinematografer's Christmas greeting from 1951, where a family invites the audience to sing Christmas songs with them.