Actress Anna Ondráková with her husband, boxer Max Schmelling, in Když hvězdy svítí (When the Stars Shine, dir. Hans H. Zerlett, 1938). The following footage includes clips showing Anna Ondráková in several other film roles, such as Velbloud uchem jehly (Camel Through the Eye of a Needle, dir. Karel Lamač, 1926), with the last clip being from Únos bankéře Fuxe (The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker, dir. Karel Anton, 1923).
Sculptor Bohumil Kafka works on a statue of Josef Mánes in a fragmented segment from the Ufa žurnál (Ufa Journal) 1939, issue no. 200. The unveiling of the monument by the Rudolfinum, including a speech by Professor Vratislav Nechleba in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1951, issue no. 52. Kafka at Prague Zoo working on a study of a lion for the Milan Rastislav Štefánik's monument in a segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1937, issue no. 5. Kafka with politician Milan Hodža in the artist´s studio in Prague-Dejvice.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 43A captures the demobilisation of the Czechoslovak Army after 9 October 1938. Conscripted soldiers are handing in their equipment and leaving the barracks.
A segment from the weekly Fox Movietone News 1937 captures the funeral of Renata Tyršová, Sokol founder Jindřich Fügner´s daughter and Miroslav Tyrš´s wife held in Prague on 26 February 1937. The funeral procession comprising masses of Sokol officials comes out of the historic Sokol building in Sokolská Street and continues across Wenceslaus Square. Minister of Industry Josef Václav Najman, Senator of the National Assembly František Soukup, Minister of National Defence František Machník and Minister of Social Welfare Jaromír Nečas walk behind the coffin.
A segment from the Paramount Sound Newsreel 1939 captures the funeral of Catholic poet, teacher and cleric Xaver Dvořák held in Hostivař on 25 November 1939. The funeral procession proceeds towards the local cemetery. The solemn ceremony concludes with the interment of the coffin with the remains of the deceased in his grave.
Segment of the Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1938 No. 18 captures the funeral of politician, former Minister of National Defence and Prime Minister František Udržal held in his native village of Dolní Roveň u Pardubic on 28 April 1938. Images of the mournfully decorated family house. The funeral ceremony opens with speeches by Prime Minister Milan Hodža and Deputy of the National Assembly Rudolf Beran. The mourners include Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Jan Malypetr, Generals Jan Syrový and Ludvík Krejčí, entrepreneur Jan Antonín Baťa and Senator František Soukup. The coffin with the deceased, draped in the national flag, is carried onto a horse-drawn hearse. The funeral procession makes its way through the streets of the village to the local cemetery. A cushion with Udražal´s honours is carried behind the hearse. In addition to his relatives and state officials, the procession includes generals of the Czechoslovak Army, military attaches, Czechoslovak soldiers, church dignitaries and Sokols. Despite the inclement weather, the streets are lined with crowds of onlookers. At the cemetery, the coffin is lowered into a grave. A plane flies past the church tower. The segment closes with an image of Udržal´s family tomb.
Segment of the Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Newsreel) 1937 No. 1 captures the funeral of politician and journalist Jan Herben held in Prague on 29 December 1936. The funeral procession makes its way through the streets of the city. Literature historian Miloslav Hýsek, theatre director Jaroslav Kvapil and a number of university dignitaries walk behind the coffin. The procession stops at Olšany Cemetery, where the coffin with the late Jan Herben is interred in his grave.
Segment from the Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1937 No. 23 captures the funeral of politician Karel Kramář held in Prague on 29 May 1937. The coffin draped in the national flag is carried out of the Pantheon of the National Museum. The funeral procession includes Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Jan Malypetr, Senator František Soukup and Prime Minister Milan Hodža. The procession ends by the Orthodox Chapel of the Dormition at Olšany Cemetery, which Karel Kramář and his wife Nadezhda Nikolayevna were instrumental in building.
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).