Augustin Jirouch, the owner of a mobile cinema, with his wife on Bohumil Veselý's balcony. The couple attending an event called �38 years in the service of a cinematographer´ on 5 April 1941. Screening of Paličova dcera (The Incendiary's Daughter, dir. Vladimír Borský, 1941) at the Šibřina Cinema attended by Vladimír Borský and Lída Baarová.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1941 No. 5A captures the funeral of inventor František Křižík held in Prague on 27 January 1941, which became a silent yet powerful expression of Czech resistance against German occupation. The coffin with the late inventor and funeral wreaths are carried out of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Vyšehrad. The solemn ceremony is concluded with the interment of the coffin in the national crypt at Slavín in Vyšehrad.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1941 No. 4B captures the funeral of painter Joža Úprka held in Kněždub on 14 January 1940. The segment opens with an archival close-up of Joža Úprka. The following image shows the late Joža Úprka displayed in an open casket surrounded by professional mourners and lit candles. Minister of Public Works Dominik Čipera and Provincial President Jaroslav Caha Syn talk with late Joža Úprka´s son, Jan. The final farewell begins in the courtyard of the family house. The funeral procession moves through the village. Úprka´s family walks behind the coffin. This is followed by a religious ceremony at the cemetery in Kněždub, attended by, among others, a number of German officers. The segment is concluded with the lowering of the coffin into the aritst´s grave.
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.
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.