Literary critic and scholar Jan Mukařovský talks at an evening event organised by the Czechoslovak Committee of the Defenders of Peace and held at the Rudolfinum in Prague to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo da Vinci in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 26. Mukařovský presents the Peace Award to the makers of the Soviet-German documentary film Přátelství zvítězí (Friendship Will Overcome, 1951) in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 33. Mukařovský opens a ceremonial session to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Victor Hugo held at the Rudolfinum on 21 February in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 9.
Lawyer Josef Scheiner, the head of the Sokolská obec (Sokol Society), watching Sokol members exercising in the courtyard of Tyrš House. Scheiner giving a speech on Old Town Square in Prague during the revolutionary days of October 1918. The footage includes images of politicians Václav Klofáč, Gustav Habrman and František Udržal.
Poet Josef Svatopluk Machar in his house in Prague-Střešovice. Machar at a book signing in the Aventinská Mansarda exhibition hall in 1930. Machar with a group of people in front of the Bohemian Diet in Sněmovní Street during the revolutionary days of 1918.
Mayor of Prague Karel Baxa with entrepreneurs Miloš and Václav Havel as they walk through the building site of Barrandov Film Studios. Baxa in a silent shot during his speech.
Sculptor Karel Pokorný giving a speech about Mikoláš Aleš in a fragmented segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1946, issue no. 52. Pokorný working on a bust of J. V. Stalin in a segment from Československé filmové noviny (Czechoslovak Film News) 1952, issue no. 51.
Music critic Otakar Šourek on Bohumil Veselý's balcony. Otakar Šourek at Slavín Cemetery in Vyšehrad in a segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1954, issue no. 20.