The research project known as 'Cinémémoire.ch' sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (or more specifically, the DORE (DO-REsearch) commission) started with a workshop in May 2007. The project, which is being implemented within the Cinema CH network and under the auspices of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF) – in connection with the Film-making master's degree programme – is aimed at compiling sufficient source material to provide a more comprehensive view of film-making during the 1960s and 1970s. The focus is on developments and connections which support or refute the idea of a schism between the 'old' and 'new' schools of Swiss film, but also provide some insight into the permeability between the individual production areas, scenes and linguistic regions. Relying on the methods associated with oral history, the research group will ask around 30 contemporary witnesses in German-speaking Switzerland, who lived through the transition between the 'old' and 'new' schools of Swiss film and helped shape its modernisation, about their experiences at an individual and institutional level in the areas of film technology, acting, etc. and record their answers in audiovisual format. The first 'Cinémémoire.ch' sub-project is being run in collaboration with Cinémathèque suisse, the Solothurner Filmtage film festival, and film studies seminars held at the University of Zurich and the University of Lausanne.