Emil František Burian during a guest performance in Zlín in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939, issue no. 41B. Burian at his desk in a segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1954, issue no. 25.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939 No. 28B captures the funeral of opera singer Otakar Mařák held in Prague on 7 July 1939. The coffin with the late singer is carried out of the National Theater. The funeral procession sets out across Peace Square to Olšany Cemetery, where the coffin with the remains of the deceased is interred in a grave.
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) 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.
Segment of the Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939 No. 20 captures the solemn event of the interment of the remains of poet Karel Hynek Mácha at Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague on 7 May 1939. Mourners walk past the coffin with the poet´s remains in the Pantheon of the National Museum. The large funeral procession starts on Wenceslaus Square and continues along National Street, Masaryk Embankment and narrow alleys to Vyšehrad. The streets are lined with crowds of people. The film footage is accompanied by the recitation of the fourth canto of the poem May delivered by Václav Vydra Jr., an actor of the National Theatre. This is followed by images from the solemn ceremony in the Slavín Tomb at Vyšehrad Cemetery. The coffin with the poet´s remains is lowered into the grave. Rudolf Medek bids farewell to Mácha on the behalf of Czech writers. Actor Eduard Kohout recites 7 May 1939, a poem by Josef Hora. People walk past the grave, placing flowers on it, some crossing themselves. The mourners include composer Vítězslav Novák, painter Max Švabinský, Minister of Education and National Enlightenment Jan Kapras and the Mayor of Prague Otakar Klapka.
Singer-songwriter Karel Hašler with actress Růžena Nasková in Ahasver (Ahasuerus, dir. Jaroslav Kvapil, 1915). Footage of Hašler on the day of his 60th birthday, 31 October 1939, in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939, issue no. 46B. Hašler with his son Gino and three-month-old grandson in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1941, issue no. 30B.
Trailer for Eva tropí hlouposti (Eva Fools Around, dir. Martin Frič, 1939). Actresses Nataša Gollová and Adina Mandlová in Šťastnou cestu (Happy Journey, dir. Otakar Vávra, 1943).
Opera singer Otakar Mařák as a patient at Na Bulovce Hospital in Prague as included in his obituary in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939, issue no. 28. The footage with the artist was shot in spring 1938.
Director Otakar Vávra with cinematographer Jan Roth during the shooting of Humoreska (Humoresque, dir. Otakara Vávra, 1939) in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939, issue no. 41B.