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.
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.