Unedited film footage from the first days of the Czechoslovak Republic shot in Prague in autumn 1918. Footage from a festive parade with destroyed Austrian symbols on Wenceslaus Square. A parade on Charles Bridge with banners reading "Socialist Nation", "Long Live the Czech Republic", and other slogans. Footage from a public gathering on White Mountain on 8 November 1918 to mark the anniversary of the famous battle. The participants carry small flags and banners with signs reading "Hus´s People" and "Separation of Church and State". A view of a gathering in the third courtyard of Prague Castle. Footage from a military celebration on Old Town Square with the damaged Marian Column. Politicians Václav Klofáč, Gustav Habrman and František Udržal at the Jan Hus Memorial. Josef Svatopluk Machar delivers a speech in front of the Provincial War Office in Sněmovní Street in Lesser Town. František Staněk, Václav Klofáč, Alois Rašín and Karel Kramář emerge from the building. Footage from a ceremonial gathering on Wenceslaus Square. A view of the decorated Zlatá husa (Golden Goose) Hotel. A parade of people in folk costumes carrying a banner reading "Long Live the Socialist Republic". Politicians František Tomášek and Josef Scheiner deliver speeches in front of the Statue of St Wenceslaus. Footage from a gathering on Old Town Square. People paint over German signs. People speak from the roof of a tram.
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.
Actor Theodor Pištěk with his colleagues Alfréd Schleisnger and Marie (Máňa) Ženíšková in Takový je život (Such Is Life, dir. Carl Junghans, 1929). Theodor Pištěk in Cikáni (Gypsies, dir. Karel Anton, 1921). Pištěk putting on make-up. Pištěk with his portrait carved in glass in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 28. Pištěk With his daughter-in-law Věra Filipová Pištěková on Bohumil Veselý's balcony.
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.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 43 offers an insight into the lives of Czech railway workers in the aftermath of the Sudetenland annexation after they find makeshift shelter in decommissioned railway carriages in the Posázaví region. The footage also shows railway workers from Obrnice u Mostu living in railway carriages.
Three identical footage items (one upside down) of a young man by the poster for She Hired a Husband starring Priscilla Dean (dir. John Francis Dillon, 1918).