Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 10A from 1943 captures a two-week training course organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth for mandatory youth service instructors in Moravian Slovakia, which was held in Luhačovice at the turn of February and March. The final exercise was attended by Moravian Provincial Vice-President Karel Schwabe and General Secretary of the Board František Teuner.
Unedited footage recorded by Czech filmmakers in Lidice on 10 June 1942. The footage captures the destruction of the village. Photographs of Lidice with the church and the men executed in the yard of Horák´s farm. Images of the wreckage of burning houses. Gestapo officers inspect the destroyed village. Remnants of the original furnishings can be seen in individual buildings and the remains of farm machinery in the yards. A shot dog lies by a kennel. German soldiers load beets onto a wagon. German officers led by the head of the Kladno Gestapo, Harald Wiesmann, pass through the village. Reich Labour Service units clear the debris and level the terrain. The material is being loaded into trolleys on makeshift rails. The Reich Labour Service camp is guarded by a guard. Members of the Reich Labour Service units are lined up in front of their quarters. One of the members salutes with a raised right arm.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1941, issue no. 52, reports on a meeting of the Southeast European Economic Society and German Economic Society in Bohemia and Moravia in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle on 17 December 1941. The gathering is attended by Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, State President Emil Hácha, Reich Secretary Karl Hermann Frank, and Prime Minister of the Protectorate Government Jaroslav Krejčí. Speeches are given by Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, Hitlerjugend leader Baldur von Schirach, and Reich Minister of Economic Affairs Walter Funk (silent). The latter points out the need to break with the Anglo-Saxon model of colonial economic policy in Eastern Europe. The meeting concludes with paying tribute to the Führer.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 23A from 1943 was shot on 30 May during the official opening of a training camp organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth at Protivín Chateau. The ceremony was held to mark the first anniversary of the Board. The importance of the event was highlighted by the presence of Prime Minister Jaroslav Krejčí. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Adolf Hrubý and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment and Chairman of the Board Emanuel Moravec spoke to the participants in the chateau courtyard. In the afternoon, the course participants put on a collective sports performance in the park adjoining the chateau.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 39A from 1944 was shot during a training course for the regional leaders of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, which was held at the Čeperka Guest House near Unhošť in connection with changes in the conditions of mandatory youth service resulting from the declaration of forced labour (Totaleinsatz) in August 1944. In addition to lectures, the programme included sports activities to improve the physical fitness of the participants.
Director Václav Binovec and actress Blanka Waleská in the Theatre and Film Department of the Municipal Library in Prague in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 49. Footage of Binovec and actor Vladimir Chinkulov Vladimírov during the shooting of the film Plameny života (The Flames of Life, 1920) at the Weteb Film Studio. Binovec meeting Soviet actor Ivan Mozzhukhin in Prague. Binovec shows off his muscles on Bohumil Veselý's balcony.
Film director Václav Krška accepts a commendation as a model worker in a news segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1953, issue no. 5. At a table with actress Zdeňka Gráfová. With actor Eduard Cupák during the shooting of Mladá léta (Youthful Years, dir. Václav Krška, 1952).
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.
Actor Václav Vydra Jr. with his wife, actress Dana Medřická, during the election of National Front candidates in a segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1954, issue no. 21. The film obituary of actor Václav Vydra Sr. in a fragmented segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1953, issue no. 17. Actor Václav Vydra Sr. in Zlatý klíček (The Gold Key, dir. Jaroslav Kvapil, 1922).