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.
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.
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.
Special issue of the Československý zvukový týdeník (Czechoslovak Sound Newsreel) No. 39 from 1937 captures the final farewell with the first Czechoslovak President T. G. Masaryk held in Prague on 21 September 1937. Shot of the mournfully decorated castle courtyard with the coffin draped in the national flag. President E. Beneš delivers a speech over the coffin (original sound). The grand funeral procession makes its way through Prague to Wilson Railway Station. It is led by the Inspector General of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces, General Jan Syrový, on horseback. The late president´s son Jan Masaryk, grandsons Leonard and Herbert Revilliod, E. Beneš and representatives of the Czechoslovak government walk behind the coffin. The funeral procession stops in front of the Wilson Railway Station. This is followed by a parade of troops in front of the coffin, attended by the family, diplomats, French Prime Minister Léon Blum and others. The coffin is then carried through the station building and loaded onto the platform of a special train dispatched to Lány. The train departs, mourners are along the track. The coffin is interred at the local cemetery in Lány.
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).