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Parliament in Helsinki also has a paternoster elevator in use still today. This film from (I think) before Second World War shows also other contemporary elevators, and making of them: https://youtu.be/Cddo-ifmUsA?t=75 Audio track is in Finnish and there is a ruinous VCR time code on top right, but still, a nostalgic piece.

The film says no year of production but I think it is from around 1938-1939 because the Olympic Stadium is there, and the general tone is optimistic in the pre-war style.

It features prominently Kone Oy (still a major Finnish elevator and escalator manufacturer) so it might be produced for or by it.



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