The Baťa Department Store on Wenceslas Square

  Authors

(:unav) Unknown author

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12801/3900876-01

 Date issued

1930

 Type

clip, video

 Language(s)

Nolinguistic content

 Description

The segment features the opening of the ten-story Baťa department store on Prague's Wenceslas Square. The functionalist building was designed by the technical department of the Baťa factory with the participation of architects Ludvík Kysela, František Lýdie Gahura, and Josef Gočár. Preparations began in July 1928, and the actual construction started in September of the same year. The department store was opened on 4 December 1929. Shots of the department store's entrance and the building's ground floor. Footage of customers exiting the building is then played in reverse, making them "return".

 Publisher

Národní filmový archiv

 Subject(s)

dům obchodní Baťa ruch pouliční tramvaje projíždějící obuv ve výloze výloha obchodu záběr pozpátku architektura Kysela Ludvík Pražský stavební ruch Places::Praha::Nové Město::Václavské náměstí::Baťa Places::Praha::Nové Město::Václavské náměstí::kino Koruna::pohled přes výlohu Baťa

 Collection(s)

Prague Urban Development in the First Half of the 20th Century

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