Footage of politician Alois Rašín during the 1919 currency reform from the compilation documentary Revoluce krve a ducha (The Revolution of Blood and Spirit, dir. J.A. Holman, 1936).
The segment captures a commemorative act for General Milan Rastislav Štefánik held in Prague on 10 May 1919. The mourning procession moves along Na Příkopě Street and through the Powder Tower gate. The procession moves on towards Old Town Square and Invalidovna. General Otakar Husák delivers a speech from the stand. The event is attended by Deputy of the Revolutionary National Assembly František Udržal and Chief of Staff of the Czechoslovak Army General Maurice Pellé.
The segment captures the funeral of YMCA Secretary James B. McCreary, who died in a tragic accident on 7 July 1919 while recording an attempt to fly under the Railway Bridge in Prague. During the attempt, the plane went off course and crashed into the boat from which McCreary was filming the event. The funeral procession of American soldiers and Czechoslovak legionnaires emerges from the building of the military hospital on Charles Square (a former Jesuit residence hall) and continues along Ječná Street. A view of the coffin draped in an American flag and a crowd of mourners in the streets of Prague´s New Town.
Unedited film footage captures the funeral of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik held in Bratislava on 10 May 1919 and copntinued in the village of Brezová on 11 May. The funeral procession through Bratislava, which took place on 10 May 1919, sets off from the Grassalkovich Palace, the current presidential residence. The funeral ceremony continues the following day in the village of Brezová. Minister of Defence Václav Klofáč delivers a funeral speech. The event is attended by the Chief of Staff of the Czechoslovak Army General Maurice Pellé, Minister of Health Vavro Šrobár, chief commander of the Czechoslovak troops in Slovakia General Luigi Giuseppe Piccione, and other luminaries. The procession passes by General Štefánik´s birthplace, the former Protestant parish in the village of Košariská.
Footage from a manifestation in Uzhhorod in November 1919. Events following the General Statue that declared Subcarpathian Ruthenia as an autonomous part of the Czechoslovak Republic. Footage from a manifestation, from a ceremonial gathering on a square. Footage of soldiers and public speakers. A view of a bell covered with an American flag. Soldiers at the border. A military cemetery in winter. Ruthenians in fur coats and traditional clothes. People leaving a church. A group of people at a railway station.
Actor Rudolf Deyl Sr. in Stavitel chrámu (The Man Who Built the Cathedral, dir. Karel Degl, Antonín Novotný, 1919). Deyl with his colleague Eva Vrchlická. Deyl in Bohumil Veselý's flat.
Unedited film footage from a visit of a sixteen-member delegation from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to Czechoslovakia on the occasion of the first anniversary of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. The delegation was led by Serbian General Stevan Hadžić. Footage from the railway station in Tábor. Welcome by Mayor Josef Šáda, his deputies, Sokol representatives and the district governor. Arrival of the train in Benešov. Welcome by Mayor František Novotný, his deputies and Sokol representatives. The train driving through the Královské Vinohrady (Royal Vineyards) railway station in Prague below Nuselské schody and the Vinohrady tunnel. Welcome at the Wilson Railway Station in Prague. General Hadžić departs in a car driving along Wilson Street towards Wenceslaus Square. His car is followed by the Kornilovs, legionnaires and Sokols on horseback. Welcoming crowds on Wenceslaus Square. Arrival at the first courtyard of Prague Castle. Footage from military manoeuvres between Milovice and Lipnice forests near Milovice that took place on 29 October 1918 under the command of General Bossi. The manoeuvres are attended by Colonel Kušakovic. The delegation in the courtyard of the Škoda factory in Pilsen. General Stevan Hadžić decorates a military battalion during the renaming ceremony of the 102nd Infantry Regiment to Czechoslovak Infantry Regiment No. 48 Yugoslavia in Benešov.