"Imagine having all these newsreels and moving pictures in the archives. It will be nice for future generations to see what our lives were like." You can only agree with the remark made by this young female student from the city of Halmstad in the Swedish Film Industry Newsreel (SF-Newsreel) in October 1941.

The web presentation "Reel History" is divided into ten themes, counting from Early Film Fragments and Royalties, to Health Culture and Media. In this web presentation you can for example watch the Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson make a fool of himself, peep at nudists of the 1930's, watch how the company, Swedish Film Industry (SF), reported of the shipwrecked submarine, Ulven in 1943, or see how the comedians "Hasse & Tage" gabbled away in the cutting room.

The 50 films available here yield a cross section, wich is representative of the entire film material in the database. Of the total, 5.554 films, about one per cent of the digitalized material has been chosen for the web. If you are interested in the remaining 99 per cent of the films, you are more than welcome to visit SLBA in Stockholm.

If you are interested in buying copies or rights to the film material, either for private or professional purposes, please contact the Swedish Television (SVT).

SVT, private sales: 0046- 8-784 57 46 - privatkopior@svt.se

SVT, archive sales: 0046-8-784 74 40 - librarysales@svt.se