The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 46B shows Košice, Slovakia, prior to its annexation to fascist Hungary following the Vienna Arbitration. It includes footage from the Main Square with its busy marketplace. Refugees are shown leaving with hay wagons loaded with furniture, while citizens of Hungarian origin and supporters of Horthy´s regime decorate the square with Hungarian flags
Violoncellist Ladislav Zelenka playing a solo during a rehearsal of the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Václav Talich in the Municipal House in Prague in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1940, issue no. 21B.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 32 explores the Runciman Mission to Czechoslovakia. The footage includes images showing the arrival of the diplomat Walter Runciman, as well as his meetings with President Edvard Beneš and Prime Minister Milan Hodža.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 43 offers images from the newly established border between Czechoslovakia and Germany following the forced surrender of the border regions to Germany in September 1938. Czechoslovak soldiers are checking permits to cross the border. Vehicles with refugees are passing through the border gates.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 42B shows the town of Polička before the German annexation on 10 October 1938. The footage shows a munitions factory, the main square with the town hall, a cemetery, and the removal of chronicles from the local archive on the square. Images of street traffic are combined with shots showing Czech refugees
The segment starts with an image of a map of the Czechoslovak Republic showing its reduced size in the aftermath of the 1938 Munich Agreement. It includes footage shot during the formal abdication of President Edvard Beneš, which took place in the Old Royal Palace of Prague Castle on 5 October 1938. The President´s abdication is witnessed by General Jan Syrový, who had been recently appointed to the office of Prime Minister. The camera offers close-up images of Beneš´s signature on the abdication document.
Singer and composer Rudolf Antonín Dvorský accepts a glass plaque with his own portrait from a student of the School of Decorative Arts in a fragmented segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 28. Dvorský in Ze soboty na neděli (From Saturday to Sunday, dir. Gustav Machatý, 1931). Dvorský on Bohumil Veselý's balcony.
Unused film material shot for Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) segment issue no. 21A from 1943 captures the mood of a training course organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth in the Prachov Camp at the Prachov Rocks in May 1943. In addition to sports events, the programme for teenagers included lectures.
Conductor Václav Talich with the Czech Philharmonic recording Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky´s Pathétique Symphony on a vinyl record in a fragmented segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1953, issue no. 36. Talich in a newsreel segment from the documentary Velcí hudebníci a zpěváci (Great Musicians and Singers, 1931), now considered lost. Talich with Stanislav Mojžíž-Lom in his office in the National Theatre. Talich during the opening of the Municipal Theatre in Písek on 1 February 1940 in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1940, issue no. 7B. Excerpt from the speech given by Talich during the presentation of National Awards at the Municipal House in Prague on 12 July 1942 in a fragmented segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 29.
Actor Vlasta Burian during a guest performance in Brno. Burian at the Secondary School of Decorative Arts in Prague shown with his own portrait carved in glass in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 28. Burian´s act called �Greco-Roman Wrestling with a Chair´ in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1944, issue no. 47.