The segment captures the funeral of writer Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod held in Prague on 7 November 1927. The funeral procession sets out from the National Museum and continues along Vinohradská Street towards Olšany Cemetery. General Rudolf Medek is among the mourners.
The segment captures the reverential act of depositing the remains of forty-two Italian legionnaires who were executed for deserting from the Austrian army to join the Italian legions in the summer of 1918. The coffins with their bodies were temporarily placed at the military cemetery in Milovice and later unearthed and transported to Prague, where a day-long funeral ceremony was held on 24 April 1921. The camera focuses on military troops lined up on Old Town Square and Italian and Czechoslovak officers. The ceremony is witnessed by Minister of National Defence Otakar Husák and the General Inspector of the Czechoslovak Army, the poet Josef Svatopluk Machar. Shots of speeches given by Josef Rotnágl, a member of the Revolutionary National Assembly, and General Otakar Husák, who delivers a message from the President of Czechoslovakia (silent). This is followed by speeches given by the Senator of the National Assembly, Václav Klofáč, Deputy of the National Assembly František Udržal, and the President of the Italian-Czechoslovak League, Prince Pietro Lanza di Scalea, whose speech is interpreted by diplomat Jan Šeba. Shot of the commander of the funeral procession, General Karel Voženílek, on horseback. General Otakar Husák and Josef Svatopluk Machar receive Italian military honours. After the solemn ceremony on Old Town Square, the coffins with the remains of the executed legionnaires were taken to the military burial ground at Olšany Cemetery.
Footage from a manifestation in Uzhhorod in November 1919. Events following the General Statue that declared Subcarpathian Ruthenia as an autonomous part of the Czechoslovak Republic. Footage from a manifestation, from a ceremonial gathering on a square. Footage of soldiers and public speakers. A view of a bell covered with an American flag. Soldiers at the border. A military cemetery in winter. Ruthenians in fur coats and traditional clothes. People leaving a church. A group of people at a railway station.
Rough footage capturing both the mobilisation and the subsequent demobilisation of the Czechoslovak Army in 1938. The first part was shot on 23 September after the declaration of general mobilisation, and shows civilians as they are issued military uniforms. The second part shows the demobilisation authorised at the extraordinary meeting of the Ministerial Council on 6 October. Soldiers are shown in the barracks handing in their uniforms. An officer passes out certificates of praise for military service.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 5B from 1945 shows girls, supervised by instructors of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, sewing gloves for the Czech men who were sent to dig trenches as part of the forced labour (Totaleinsatz) programme. The finished products were sent to labour camps.
Unedited film footage from a visit of a sixteen-member delegation from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to Czechoslovakia on the occasion of the first anniversary of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. The delegation was led by Serbian General Stevan Hadžić. Footage from the railway station in Tábor. Welcome by Mayor Josef Šáda, his deputies, Sokol representatives and the district governor. Arrival of the train in Benešov. Welcome by Mayor František Novotný, his deputies and Sokol representatives. The train driving through the Královské Vinohrady (Royal Vineyards) railway station in Prague below Nuselské schody and the Vinohrady tunnel. Welcome at the Wilson Railway Station in Prague. General Hadžić departs in a car driving along Wilson Street towards Wenceslaus Square. His car is followed by the Kornilovs, legionnaires and Sokols on horseback. Welcoming crowds on Wenceslaus Square. Arrival at the first courtyard of Prague Castle. Footage from military manoeuvres between Milovice and Lipnice forests near Milovice that took place on 29 October 1918 under the command of General Bossi. The manoeuvres are attended by Colonel Kušakovic. The delegation in the courtyard of the Škoda factory in Pilsen. General Stevan Hadžić decorates a military battalion during the renaming ceremony of the 102nd Infantry Regiment to Czechoslovak Infantry Regiment No. 48 Yugoslavia in Benešov.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 1A from 1945 was shot during the boys´ swimming courses organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth and held in the Axa Palace swimming pool. The training included teaching first aid for rescuing a drowning person.
Unedited footage recorded by Czech filmmakers in Lidice on 10 June 1942. The footage captures the destruction of the village. Photographs of Lidice with the church and the men executed in the yard of Horák´s farm. Images of the wreckage of burning houses. Gestapo officers inspect the destroyed village. Remnants of the original furnishings can be seen in individual buildings and the remains of farm machinery in the yards. A shot dog lies by a kennel. German soldiers load beets onto a wagon. German officers led by the head of the Kladno Gestapo, Harald Wiesmann, pass through the village. Reich Labour Service units clear the debris and level the terrain. The material is being loaded into trolleys on makeshift rails. The Reich Labour Service camp is guarded by a guard. Members of the Reich Labour Service units are lined up in front of their quarters. One of the members salutes with a raised right arm.