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The Minister Film Committee Presents
Something about Scandinavia
Idea by Carl Th. Dreyer Manus and Drawings Bent Barfod
Animation be Borge Hamberg Music by Hans Schreiber
Produced by: Bent Barfod
up On the map are five countries
That is the North
It is both Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark
In Iceland are there Mountains,
and in them are there Sulfur
On the fields there are Sheep, whose fur is being mined
so the wives can knit yarn while the men is out..
Fishing
Norway is fishing too and sometimes for Whale.
That is not a fish but mammals.
They have a lot of ships
The air in Norway can be used to make nitric.
I don't know how
And they have some water
Heavy water
Some are living by being woodcutters
And some put a dynamo to a waterfall so it spins
and then everything else can spin
Finland has so many trees
that they have to cut them down to even be there
Out of trees you can make cellulose
Which is made into paper
There is tar in trees when twisting them
The Finns also make cups and plates and stuff
Over in Sweden they take a lot of iron out of the mountains
It is used to make many big things out of
There are also silver, but not so much
So it is used to make many little things out of
But they are mighty pretty
Copper can be pulled into long thin strands
And when they get hung up on poles Can they be used to make calls with.
And to sit on
You know, for birds
Denmark has a lot of agriculture. And they use a lot machines so they can do something else at the same time
There must of course be someone to all the factories, right?
All countries in the Nordic countries are doing more than they need
around each country are tariff walls
It is not real bricklayer, it's just something you say
It does not help that one agrees that now they should be gone
one is too little to agree
It must be all five at once
Then it is easy to handle some walls Which is not real walls
but just something you say
That is called the market is open
And so the carousel go. If one has too much of something,
the other can get. if he have nothing
And the other way around for the others
If we all help by making goods to each other.
Then the goods would be cheaper
All that is left, can they agree to put on ships
and sail out the whole world
We have many ships in the North. Because we build them ourselves
When the ships return, they can bring goods
that we do not have in the North with them.
Bananas, chocolate, coffee and of course coal and stuff
If we take a factory in Denmark
And a man who is unemployed
he can see that there is nothing to do
here are the right amount of people that there are machines
But he can go to one of the other Nordic countries
And then there might be room for him there
This is good for both the man and the other factory
Then that factory can have more machines running
And when he is off, he might not be able to resist the urge
To go skiing
when he then has a broken leg, his health fund will also work here.
if he has payed
Or else he can lie there and think..?
There is a horse, its name is Pegasus.
And it makes a lot of poets write books
It is good to learn about each other while you are a child.
In that way, we'll know each other when we are grown ups
Somethings you do not need to read This you can go to the theater and watch
here is also much to listen to, because there is music
On summer vacation, you can walk on lava in Iceland
up the mountains they have in Norway
Down in the valleys lying in Sweden
Sailing on lakes, as they have so many in Finland
And Denmark is also pretty
even though it is flat
It's also fun to see if we can understand each other's paintings
things
And buildings.
Both the new and those from..
a long time ago
Now we are good friends when we argue
But we get the best out of it
when we work together with each other
FIN