Segment of the Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939 No. 1 caputres the funeral of writer Karel Čapek at Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague on 29 December 1938. The coffin with the deceased is carried out of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul and across the cemetery to the grave. Theatre director Vojta Novák delivers a speech at the grave. The coffin is lowered into the grave. The mourners include Karel Čapek´s widow, actress and writer Olga Scheinpflugová, his brother-in law, journalist Karel Scheinpflug, writer Ferdinand Peroutka, Karel Čapek´s brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, actor Hugo Haas, poet and theatre critic Hanuš Jelínek, poet Josef Hora, sociologist Miloslav Disman and others. The segment conludes with the Czech anthem.
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.
Opera singer Gabriela Horvátová, at first on her own and later in the company of two men on Bohumil Veselý's balcony. An image of Horvátová in Její pastorkyňa (Jenůfa, dir. Rudolf Měšťák, 1929).
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) from late September 1938 captures the recording of a radio speech given by General Jan Syrový to accept his appointment to the office of Prime Minister on 22 September 1938, in which he responds to the national demonstration for the unity of Czechoslovakia held in front of the Parliament building in Prague. He urges the demonstrators, as well as all citizens, to remain calm and sensible and to return to work.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 28 reports on the visit of Giuseppe Dalla Torre, the editor-in-chief of the Vatican City State´s daily newspaper of L´Osservatorio Romano, to Czechoslovakia.
A close-up of Gustav Adolf Procházka, the Patriarch of Czechoslovak Church, from a newsreel segment to mark the 15th anniversary of the Czechoslovak Church in 1935.
Wrestler Gustav Frištejnský in a match against Josef Šmejkal in Prague-Letná in 1913. Frištejnský with his young nephew František at a farm in Lužice. Frištejnský swimming with his dog in the Sitka River. Frištejnský exercising in the countryside. Footage of Frištejnský with his wife Miroslava. Several scenes from the documentary Město Litovel (The Town of Litovel, 1927) are used.