The segment captures events preceding the installation and subsequent unveiling of the memorial statue of French historian and Slavonic scholar Ernest Denis on Lesser Town Square in Prague. Members of the Commission for the Construction of Denis´s Memorial use a maquette to find the best place for the statue. The event is witnessed by the artist, the sculptor Karel Dvořák. A shot of Dvořák in his studio in the courtyard of a house on Janáček Embankment in Smíchov, Prague. Digging works for the pedestal followed by the unveiling of the memorial on 27 October 1928, the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic. President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Minister of Education Milan Hodža, Prague Mayor Karel Baxa, General Jan Syrový, MP Antonín Uhlíř, French General Eugene Mittelhauser, French politician Alfred Oberkirch and others are present on the grandstand. Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs Edvard Beneš. An image of the President T. G. Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.
The segment captures the funeral of the wife of President T. G. Masaryk Ï the writer and feminist Charlotta Garrigue-Masaryk Ï held in Lány on 15 May 1923. The coffin is loaded onto a hearse in front of the Lány Chateau. The funeral procession sets out from the chateau towards the cemetery in Lány. The coffin is carried by Czechoslovak legionnaires; President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, with his children Alice, Jan and Olga Masaryk, son-in-law Henri Revilliod, Herbert Masaryk's widow Bohumila Masaryková Slavíčková, and granddaughters Anna and Herberta walk behind the coffin. The large funeral procession includes the Chief of the Czechoslovak Main Staff of the Armed Forces General Eugene Mittelhauser, Deputy of the National Assembly František Tomášek, the Senator of the National Assembly, Václav Klofáč, Minister of Foreign Affairs Edvard Beneš, Chancellor Přemysl Šámal, Minister of Health Jan Šrámek, Minister of National Defence František Udržal, Minister of Agriculture Milan Hodža, Prague Mayor Karel Baxa and Minister of Social Welfare Gustav Habrman. The segment ends with an image of the Lány cemetery.