Ceremonial unveiling of the Ernst Denis Memorial

  Authors

Deglové

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12801/3900890-01

 Date issued

1928

 Type

clip, video

 Language(s)

Nolinguistic content

 Description

The segment captures events preceding the installation and subsequent unveiling of the memorial statue of French historian and Slavonic scholar Ernest Denis on Lesser Town Square in Prague. Members of the Commission for the Construction of Denis´s Memorial use a maquette to find the best place for the statue. The event is witnessed by the artist, the sculptor Karel Dvořák. A shot of Dvořák in his studio in the courtyard of a house on Janáček Embankment in Smíchov, Prague. Digging works for the pedestal followed by the unveiling of the memorial on 27 October 1928, the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic. President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Minister of Education Milan Hodža, Prague Mayor Karel Baxa, General Jan Syrový, MP Antonín Uhlíř, French General Eugene Mittelhauser, French politician Alfred Oberkirch and others are present on the grandstand. Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs Edvard Beneš. An image of the President T. G. Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.

 Publisher

Národní filmový archiv

 Subject(s)

pomník Denis Ernest maketa pomník Denis Ernest odhalení stavba podstavce pomníku sochař při práci Sokolové na shromáždění slavnostním shromáždění slavnostní ateliér sochařský generál československý generál francouzský projev veřejný pomník Dvořák Karel výročí vznik ČSR 10. Vznik ČSR Places::Praha::Malá Strana::Malostranské náměstí::pomník Ernsta Denise Places::Praha::Janáčkovo nábřeží::ateliér Karla Dvořáka /int./ People::Hodža Milan (1878-1944) People::Baxa Karel (1862-1938) People::Syrový Jan (1888-1970) People::Beneš Edvard (1884-1948) People::Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue (1850-1937)

 Collection(s)

Birth of Czechoslovakia and celebrations of its anniversaries

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