The segment captures a commemorative act for General Milan Rastislav Štefánik held in Prague on 10 May 1919. The mourning procession moves along Na Příkopě Street and through the Powder Tower gate. The procession moves on towards Old Town Square and Invalidovna. General Otakar Husák delivers a speech from the stand. The event is attended by Deputy of the Revolutionary National Assembly František Udržal and Chief of Staff of the Czechoslovak Army General Maurice Pellé.
The segment captures the reverential act of depositing the remains of forty-two Italian legionnaires who were executed for deserting from the Austrian army to join the Italian legions in the summer of 1918. The coffins with their bodies were temporarily placed at the military cemetery in Milovice and later unearthed and transported to Prague, where a day-long funeral ceremony was held on 24 April 1921. The camera focuses on military troops lined up on Old Town Square and Italian and Czechoslovak officers. The ceremony is witnessed by Minister of National Defence Otakar Husák and the General Inspector of the Czechoslovak Army, the poet Josef Svatopluk Machar. Shots of speeches given by Josef Rotnágl, a member of the Revolutionary National Assembly, and General Otakar Husák, who delivers a message from the President of Czechoslovakia (silent). This is followed by speeches given by the Senator of the National Assembly, Václav Klofáč, Deputy of the National Assembly František Udržal, and the President of the Italian-Czechoslovak League, Prince Pietro Lanza di Scalea, whose speech is interpreted by diplomat Jan Šeba. Shot of the commander of the funeral procession, General Karel Voženílek, on horseback. General Otakar Husák and Josef Svatopluk Machar receive Italian military honours. After the solemn ceremony on Old Town Square, the coffins with the remains of the executed legionnaires were taken to the military burial ground at Olšany Cemetery.
Segment from Československý zvukový týdeník Aktualita (Czechoslovak Aktualita Sound Newsreel) 1942, issue no. 23, depicts the so-called Manifestation of the Czech People for the Reich, organised by the Protectorate Government on Old Town Square in Prague on 2 June 1942. The gathering of 65,000 people, whose attendance was "highly recommended", was to unequivocally condemn the assassination attempt on Acting Reich Protector, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich as well as all of the activities of the Czechoslovak Government in Exile in Great Britain. Members of the Protectorate Government climb up a grandstand in front of Týn Church. High-angled shots of the crowded square. A speech by Prime Minister Jaroslav Krejčí. The footage shows Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Adolf Hrubý, Minister of Economic Affairs and Labour Walter Bertsch, Minister of the Interior Richard Bienert, Minister of Finance Josef Kalfus, Minister of Transport Jindřich Kamenický, and Minister of Education and People´s Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. A speech by the General Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth in Bohemia and Moravia František Teuner, and concluding words by Minister of Education and People's Enlightenment Emanuel Moravec. A wide shot of the crowded square. The segment concludes with the Czech anthem (authentic sound and singing) with images showing people with arms raised in the Nazi salute.
Unedited film footage captures events taking place in the streets of Prague in October 1918 during the first weeks of Czechoslovakia´s independence. A public manifestation takes place in front of the building of the Czech Escompt Bank (Böhmische Escompte-Bank). A demonstration of Czech soldiers, dressed in the uniforms of the Austro-Hungarian army, is held on Old Town Square. Prime Minister Karel Kramář gets out of an arriving car. The gathering is attended by politicians Václav Klofáč and František Udržal. Gustav Habrman and Josef Scheiner speak by the Jan Hus Memorial. A shot of Karel Kramář, Gustav Habrman and Václav Klofáč in a train window at the Main Railway Station after their return from negotiations in Geneva on 4 November 1918. Czechoslovak soldiers in Austro-Hungarian uniforms march in a parade through Wenceslaus Square, which is decorated with Czech flags and the flags of the victorious states. A shot of a railway carriage with patriotic signs. A postcard with anti-Austrian caricatures. People in the parade carry the remnants of the Austrian coat of arms. Footage of the arrival of President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in Prague on 21 December. The train pulls into the Main Railway Station. President Masaryk, accompanied by František Tomášek, departs in an open car and then transfers to a carriage on Old Town Square.