The Justistal is a plateau in the Bernese Alps over Lake Thun. When the winter ends, the cows return to their high pastures for the period known as "summering". The milk produced during this season is transformed into cheese which the farmers divide up at the end of the summer. This ancestral ritual is the occasion for a great popular holiday during which the lots of cheese are attributed to the farmers in function of the milk yield of their cows. After the sharing has been completed, the cows come back down again into the valley for the winter.
 

This edition of Ciné-journal shows us Cheese Day in 1923. It is one of the first Swiss newsreels, production of which began in September of the same year under the aegis of the Revue suisse du cinéma, a specialised periodical, and one of its goals was to favour the development of local production. In 1924, especially with a view to this production, a Film Office is founded in Lausanne. The Ciné-journal is met with great success. Towards the end of the 1920s, it passed from two editions a month to three a week! They were distributed in a hundred Swiss cinemas, and the Film Office prospered in French-speaking Switzerland until the advent of the talkies. In response to foreign competition, the Ciné-journal added a soundtrack as of 1931 thanks to Cinégram in Geneva, a company created by the merger of the Film Office and AAP, a production company founded in Geneva in 1928. But production of these talking newsreels was unable to keep up the same pace, and despite a revival thanks to the aid of the Swiss National Tourist Office, this first series was to cease in 1936. The measures taken before W.W.II, known as "spiritual national defence", were to give rise to the creation of a new Ciné-journal, subsidised by the Confederation, entrusted once again to Cinégram, shown in cinemas between 1940 and 1975.

The historic and documentary value of this edition is undeniable. If it deals with the very beginnings of Ciné-journal, this subject informs us about a still practised ancestral tradition. The gestures of the farmers and iris transitions rhythm these images with a magnificent natural setting. This film was restored in 2000, within the framework of a project supported by Memoriav, whose goal is to preserve Swiss audiovisual heritage.