Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 17, captures the presentation of a gift Ï Ambulance Train no. 751 Ï from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Adolf Hitler and the German army. The train handover took place at Prague Main Railway Station on 20 April 1942, the birthday of Adolf Hitler. Cars arrive in front of Prague Main Railway Station. Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich enters the train station. State President Emil Hácha gives a speech in the festively decorated railway hall. In response, Heydrich shakes his hand. The event is witnessed by a delegation of railway workers. The train crew lines up on the station platform. Heydrich enters the train with his entourage and inspects the sleeping cars, the operating carriage, the kitchen, and the sick bay. The inspection of the ambulance train is attended by Protectorate Prime Minister Jaroslav Krejčí and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. According to the voiceover, the train was made in a railway workshop in Prague-Bubny in record time. It consisted of 28 carriages and 20 hospital carriages, was 410 metres long, weighed 545 tons and had capacity for 280 wounded.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 27A, captures the Pledge of Czech Theatre Professionals´ Allegiance to the Reich, a manifestation held at the National Theatre in Prague on 25 June 1942, which was to unequivocally condemn the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. Speeches are delivered by actor Rudolf Deyl Jr. and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec (silent). Actress Růžena Nasková and actors Karel Höger, Ferenc Futurista, and Stanislav Neumann are seen among the participants. The segment concludes with everyone performing the Nazi salute.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1941, issue no. 40, captures events linked to the accession of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to the office of Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on 27 September 1941. Heydrich attends an SS military parade on Hradčanské Square in Prague. Military dignitaries and state officials welcome him in the first quadrangle of Prague Castle. The Nazi flag flies over Prague Castle. Reich Commissioner for the Sudetenland Konrad Henlein and Reich Secretary Karl Hermann Frank are present at the occasion. State President Emil Hácha receives Reinhard Heydrich at Prague Castle.
Ornithologist Alfréd Hořice with his collection of stuffed birds in a fragmented segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1945, issue no. 19.
Cold water swimmer Alfréd Nikodém as the oldest participant in a swimming race in the Vltava River in a segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 36. Nikodém with a bouquet of flowers by Svatopluk Čech Bridge.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 23 captures Peter Hletko´s speech on the importance of the Pittsburgh Agreement and continues with a report on the meeting between the five-member delegation of the American Slovak League, led by Peter Hletko, and President Edvard Beneš, which was held in Prague on 30 May 1938.
The segment from the 1942 Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) Issue No. 18 features the event Týden národního zdraví (A Week for National Health) organised by The Ministry of the Interior and The Health Institute of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 3 to 10 May 1942. The official goal of the event was to advocate for the importance of healthcare. The report covers the establishment of anti-tuberculosis stations in a number of places around the Protectorate. Footage of the measuring of body height and weight of patients. A showcase of how an X-ray station in Moravská Ostrava operates. Footage of doctors working with X-ray machines. A close-up of an X-ray image of the lungs. The segment includes footage of mobile X-ray cars set up for the treatment of child patients. Footage from a solarium intended for irradiating children with sunlamps.
The segment from the 1938 Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) Issue No. 39 encourages blood donating in preparation for the anticipated war. The information given on the Czechoslovak Red Cross' activities is illustrated by footage of blood donations, Red Cross nurses taking blood samples, and the canning of blood for military purposes.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 33 shows children playing in gas masks in Prague.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 1A from 1944 was shot during a Christmas exhibition organised by the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth and held in the hall of the Black Rose Palace in Na Příkopě Street in Prague from 18 to 22 December. The exhibition included a display of the 500 prettiest toys made as part of the Sewing Dolls initiative. Girls made 59,000 dolls, out of which 44,000 went to the children of the labourers working in the Reich and 15,000 to the children of the German soldiers fighting on the front. The exhibition was toured by Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment and Chairman of the Board Emanuel Moravec and General Secretary of the Board František Teuner.