From Backyard to Light: urban environment, nature, and children in a Finnish short film from the 1940s.

This paper focuses on an urban environment, nature, and children as visualised and presented in the Finnish short film From Backyard to Light (1940). The film depicts children's play and playgrounds that a city's Child Welfare Committee implemented in the surroundings of the capital city, Helsinki....

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Published in:	Paedagogica Historica Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 363 - 381
Main Author:	Nieminen, Marjo
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2021
Subjects:	Children in motion pictures Nineteen forty, A.D. Short films Urban ecology (Sociology) Play Playgrounds Gender Finnish history, 1939-1945 Children
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