Swiss Film Weekly goes online
All issues of the Schweizer Filmwochenschau are digitized.
The Filmwochenschau was a compilation of the most important news of the week commissioned by the Federal Council from 1940 onwards. During and after the war, it was the only way to find out about current affairs alongside the radio and newspapers, and shaped the consciousness of moviegoers for decades.
The more than 6,600 reports provide an insight into the political, social and cultural life of Switzerland during the war and the subsequent upswing. As the forerunners of today's TV news, they are the centerpiece of our country's audiovisual political information from 1940 to 1975.
As a first step, all issues from 1956 in German, French and Italian, including comprehensive and multilingual metadata, will be made available online on November 12 as part of the 20th Winterthur International Short Film Festival. Memobase.ch and Swiss-archives.ch researchable and accessible. All other years will be published from 2017.
The online publication of the Swiss Film Weekly is a joint project of the Cinémathèque Suisse, the Swiss Federal Archives and Memoriav. This project is supported by the Federal Office of Culture, the Ernst Goehner Foundation, the Lottery Fund of the Canton of Ticino and SRG SSR.
