Ceremonial unveiling of the Ernst Denis Memorial

Title:

Ceremonial unveiling of the Ernst Denis Memorial

Creator:

Deglové

Publisher:

Národní filmový archiv

Identifier:

3900890-01
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12801/3900890-01

Subject:

pomník Denis Ernest maketa, pomník Denis Ernest odhalení, stavba podstavce pomníku, sochař při práci, Sokolové na shromáždění slavnostním, shromáždění slavnostní, ateliér sochařský, generál československý, generál francouzský, projev veřejný, pomník Dvořák Karel, výročí vznik ČSR 10., Vznik ČSR, Places::Praha::Malá Strana::Malostranské náměstí::pomník Ernsta Denise, Places::Praha::Janáčkovo nábřeží::ateliér Karla Dvořáka /int./, People::Hodža Milan (1878-1944), People::Baxa Karel (1862-1938), People::Syrový Jan (1888-1970), People::Beneš Edvard (1884-1948), and People::Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue (1850-1937)

Type:

video and clip

Description:

The segment captures events preceding the installation and subsequent unveiling of the memorial statue of French historian and Slavonic scholar Ernest Denis on Lesser Town Square in Prague. Members of the Commission for the Construction of Denis´s Memorial use a maquette to find the best place for the statue. The event is witnessed by the artist, the sculptor Karel Dvořák. A shot of Dvořák in his studio in the courtyard of a house on Janáček Embankment in Smíchov, Prague. Digging works for the pedestal followed by the unveiling of the memorial on 27 October 1928, the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic. President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Minister of Education Milan Hodža, Prague Mayor Karel Baxa, General Jan Syrový, MP Antonín Uhlíř, French General Eugene Mittelhauser, French politician Alfred Oberkirch and others are present on the grandstand. Speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs Edvard Beneš. An image of the President T. G. Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.

Language:

No linguistic content

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PUB
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Harvested from:

LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ repository

Metadata only:

false

Date:

1928