Special issue of the Československý zvukový týdeník (Czechoslovak Sound Newsreel) No. 39 from 1937 captures the final farewell with the first Czechoslovak President T. G. Masaryk held in Prague on 21 September 1937. Shot of the mournfully decorated castle courtyard with the coffin draped in the national flag. President E. Beneš delivers a speech over the coffin (original sound). The grand funeral procession makes its way through Prague to Wilson Railway Station. It is led by the Inspector General of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces, General Jan Syrový, on horseback. The late president´s son Jan Masaryk, grandsons Leonard and Herbert Revilliod, E. Beneš and representatives of the Czechoslovak government walk behind the coffin. The funeral procession stops in front of the Wilson Railway Station. This is followed by a parade of troops in front of the coffin, attended by the family, diplomats, French Prime Minister Léon Blum and others. The coffin is then carried through the station building and loaded onto the platform of a special train dispatched to Lány. The train departs, mourners are along the track. The coffin is interred at the local cemetery in Lány.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1937, issue no. 50 captures a speech delivered by Rudolf Beran, a member of the National Assembly, on 9 December 1937 regarding the future of Czechoslovakia.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1937, issue no. 52 reports on the visit of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Yvon Delbos to Prague on 15 December 1937. Yvon Delbos is shown meeting with President Edvard Beneš, and also at a banquet in Czernin Palace with Prime Minister Milan Hodža, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamil Krofta, the Chairman of the Senate František Soukup, and the Chairman of the Parliament Jan Malypetr. The footage closes with the departure of Yvon Delbos from Wilson Station as he says good-bye to the people of Prague