SAGW Media Prize for SF industrial film series

The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences SAGW is awarding its media prize, "The Golden Glasses" 2006, to film scholar Yvonne Zimmermann and TV journalist Georg Häsler. The two receive the prize, endowed with CHF 10,000, for the four-part series "Zeitreise ins Landesinnere". The series was broadcast in the program "Schweiz aktuell" on Swiss Television SF in November and December 2005. According to the SAGW, the reasons for the award were the exemplary cooperation between journalist and scientist, the exciting treatment of documents and contemporary problems and ultimately the proof that science also has a place in current affairs magazines. For the award-winning series, industrial films from 1930 to 1960 were evaluated and juxtaposed with reports from the present day. The "Golden Glasses" will be presented on November 10 in Bern.