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The long wait is over. The Image Archive of the ETH Library has now made its oldest films available online for research buffs. Exciting historical expeditions, experiments and much more are waiting to be explored.
At last, you can access 86 film treasures in the Image Archive of the ETH Library also online by visiting ETH Zurich’s Video Portal. There are historical 35 and 16 mm films to be discovered, as well as audio recordings dating from 1912 to 1980.
Highlights from the holdings
Delve into the world of our explorers. Experience the Greenland expedition of Arctic explorer Alfred de Quervain (1912) or the countless solar eclipses in the 1960s and 1970s with solar researcher Max Waldmeier. Experimental films from the Institute of Aerodynamics (1958) are just as much at your disposal as test drives by Paul Jaray using a streamlined vehicle body (around 1930–1940) or the fascinating “Entstehung von Wirbeln bei in Wasser bewegten Körpern” (Production of vortexes by bodies