The film segment shows music composer Leoš Janáček with musicologist and folklorist Viktor Michajlovič Běljajev, music composer Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, opera singer Marie Calma-Veselá and musicologist Ernest Closson on the deck of a steamboat at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Prague, 1925. Janáček with a composer Karel Kovařovic and a group of unidentified men by the back door to the National Theatre in Prague.
Film footage of Otakar Ostrčil, the head of the National Theatre Opera, standing in front of the entrance to the National Theatre. Shots of Otakar Ostrčil at work in his office and whilst conducting in the orchestra hall. The footage originally comes from an obituary included in the 1935 UFA žurnál (UFA newsreel) No. 35.