Literary critic and scholar Jan Mukařovský talks at an evening event organised by the Czechoslovak Committee of the Defenders of Peace and held at the Rudolfinum in Prague to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo da Vinci in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 26. Mukařovský presents the Peace Award to the makers of the Soviet-German documentary film Přátelství zvítězí (Friendship Will Overcome, 1951) in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 33. Mukařovský opens a ceremonial session to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victor Hugo held at the Rudolfinum on 21 February in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 9.
Footage of actor Jan Werich with a pipe in a fragmented newsreel segment. Werich with Jiří Voskovec and actresses Hana Vítová and Ljuba Hermanová in Peníze nebo život (Your Money or Your Life, dir. Jinřich Honzl, 1932). Werich with his colleagues Jiří Voskovec, Světlanou (Světla) Svozilová, Vlasta Petrovičová and Miloš Nedbal in the trailer for the play Vest Pocket Revue in a fragmented segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1937, issue no. 16, to mark the 10th anniversary of the existence of the Osvobozené divadlo (Liberated Theatre).
Professor and ophthalmologist Jaromír Kurz treating his patients. Kurz talking about the importance of his work in a segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1951, issue no. 13.
Painter Jaromír Stretti-Zamponi working. Painter Mario Stretti working on prints with print master and printmaker Mirro Pegrassi in a fragmented segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1958, issue no. 15. Painter Viktor Stretti working in his studio. Stretti on Bohumil Veselý's balcony.
Polarography inventor Jaroslav Heyrovský with his colleagues Metoděj Innemann and František Peták in a laboratory in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1951, issue no. 20.
Violin virtuoso Jaroslav Kocián with his students Jiří and Ljuba Straka rehearsing Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky´s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35. Maestro Kocián borrows a book at the Municipal Library in Prague in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 49B.
Professor and geologist Jaroslav Petrbok doing fieldwork in Prokopské údolí in Prague. Petrbok on Bohumil Veselý's balcony. Petrbok with his granddaughter. The scientist with fossil findings in a segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1958, issue no. 4.
Organist Jaroslav Vachulka on Bohumil Veselý's balcony. Vachulka playing the organ in the Mirror Chapel at the Klementinum in Prague in a fragmented newsreel segment.