The segment starts with an image of a map of the Czechoslovak Republic showing its reduced size in the aftermath of the 1938 Munich Agreement. It includes footage shot during the formal abdication of President Edvard Beneš, which took place in the Old Royal Palace of Prague Castle on 5 October 1938. The President´s abdication is witnessed by General Jan Syrový, who had been recently appointed to the office of Prime Minister. The camera offers close-up images of Beneš´s signature on the abdication document.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 38 offers a part of the radio speech delivered by President Edvard Beneš on 10 September 1938, in which he urges Czech citizens to stay calm and hopeful for the future.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 38 captures the last speech President Edvard Beneš gave prior to his abdication on 5 October 1938.
The segment of Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel), 1938, issue no. 22 shows President Edvard Beneš with his wife Hana and Minister of Defence František Machník during a visit to Tábor on 21 May 1938.
The segment from a Degl film production company newsreel captures president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk´s first visit to the National Theatre. Cars with guests are arriving at the side entrance of the building. The president is leaving the theatre and stepping into a car.
Segment from Český zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czech Aktualita Sound Newsreel) issue no. 5B from 1945 shows girls, supervised by instructors of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, sewing gloves for the Czech men who were sent to dig trenches as part of the forced labour (Totaleinsatz) programme. The finished products were sent to labour camps.
Singer and composer Rudolf Antonín Dvorský accepts a glass plaque with his own portrait from a student of the School of Decorative Arts in a fragmented segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 28. Dvorský in Ze soboty na neděli (From Saturday to Sunday, dir. Gustav Machatý, 1931). Dvorský on Bohumil Veselý's balcony.