Segment of the Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1939 No. 1 caputres the funeral of writer Karel Čapek at Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague on 29 December 1938. The coffin with the deceased is carried out of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul and across the cemetery to the grave. Theatre director Vojta Novák delivers a speech at the grave. The coffin is lowered into the grave. The mourners include Karel Čapek´s widow, actress and writer Olga Scheinpflugová, his brother-in law, journalist Karel Scheinpflug, writer Ferdinand Peroutka, Karel Čapek´s brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, actor Hugo Haas, poet and theatre critic Hanuš Jelínek, poet Josef Hora, sociologist Miloslav Disman and others. The segment conludes with the Czech anthem.
Writer Karel Čapek and actress Olga Scheinpflugová on Peace Square in Prague after their wedding ceremony on 26 August 1935 in a segment from Československý filmový týdeník (Czechoslovak Film Weekly Newsreel) 1935, issue no. 36. Karel Čapek with his brother, the painter Josef Čapek, in the garden of his villa in Prague-Vinohrady in the documentary Jaro v Praze (Spring in Prague, dir. Jaroslav Novotný, 1930).
Actress and writer Olga Scheinpflugová on Bohumil Veselý's balcony. The wedding of Olga Scheinpflugová and Karel Čapek at Vinohrady Town Hall on 26 August 1935 in the presence Karel Scheinpflug and Julius Firt as witnesses. Olga Sheinpflugová with her husband Karel Čapek in the garden of their villa in Prague-Vinohrady. Sheinpflugová playing Sonya in a theatre adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment in the Vinohrady Theatre in Prague.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 27 reports on the 16th International Congress of PEN. Clubs held in Prague from 26 to 30 June 1938. The delegates include President Edvard Beneš and his wife Hana, the writers Karel Čapek, H. G. Wells and Olga Scheinpflugová, and Vojtěch Mastný, the Czechoslovak envoy to Berlin.