SRG archive offers a chronicle of Switzerland  

SRG is making parts of its audiovisual archive accessible to the public to mark its 75th anniversary. Since it was founded in 1931, it has preserved thousands of audio and video documents. Excerpts from radio and television broadcasts as well as film newsreels from the last 75 years are available at www.ideesuisse.ch. The website is online in the four national languages and is constantly being expanded. It comprises nine sections on politics, society, the economy, culture, science and sport as well as everyday life in Switzerland. Each section contains several dossiers with excerpts from broadcasts. A short text introduces each dossier and places the programs in their contemporary context. For example, on politics, you will find the television report "Birth of the magic formula" from 1959 or the report "Renewed rejection of women's suffrage in the canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden" from 1982. The juxtaposition of radio and television broadcasts from the four language regions is intended to show the regional characteristics of important events and social debates. The website also provides an insight into media history and shows how radio and television reporting has developed since the introduction of radio in the 1930s and television in the 1950s. It is aimed at anyone interested in Swiss history and is intended in particular to provide media professionals, teachers and students with illustrative material to enrich their presentations and texts.
The project is being realized by the Webfactory of Swissinfo/Swiss Radio International, in close cooperation with the documentation and archive offices of the SRG SSR business units and the Memoriav association for the preservation of Switzerland's audiovisual cultural heritage. By the end of 2006, around 400 excerpts from radio and television broadcasts will be available.