Detailed speeded up shots of sprouting and growing plants (Japanese lily, beans, mustard, flax, garden anemone, daffodil, rose, viktoria regia).
The servant Prefatýn catches sight of a female cook on the street. He accompanies her to the market and helps her carry the groceries up to the front of her house. The next day he shows up with a bou...
The film is depicting a Greek-Roman wrestling match of Gustav Frištenský and Josef Šmejkal, which took place on June 1, 1913 in Letná, Prague. Both the wrestlers are coming to Letná. Then you can...
A magic show by Dismas Šlambor, owner of the first permanent cinema in Prague. He performed under the stage name Viktor Ponrepo and occasionally introduced screenings in his cinema with such magic sh...
At the beginning there is a short shot showing the cinema owner, František Ponec. On the football field of the S.K. Viktoria Žižkov Team is a football tournament "For a Silver Cup". The teams are c...
The farmer Matula leaves to sell cattle at the annual market. He bids farewell to his wife and daughter. That evening after the market he plays a game of cards and takes a room for the night at an inn...
The documentary film is documenting the production of footwear from raw leather to finished products. We can watch cows being taken for the slaughter, production of shoe leather from beef fell. An act...
Professor Dobner seeks the philosopher's stone, which would reveal to him the secret of creating gold. To this end he searches for the notes of alchemist Melchiad Koloman, who, according to legend, su...
A scene of street fights.
Only preserved fragments from the film are available.
Armed villagers kidnap Ruth (actress: Nataša Cyganková) - the daughter of the Jewis inn-keeper (actor: Alexander Šuvalov).
Ondráková (actress) on a coat and scarf, Pelíšek (actor) on a pullover. There is a slogan on the wall: "Only for ladies".
From the left: housemaid, chief butler (actor: Luigi Hofman), old houseman Jan (actor: Josef Šváb-Malostranský) and Dagmar - the wife of the landowner Dražický (actress: Anny Ondráková)
Olga Augustová (actress) as "The Lady with the Small Foot" and Gustav Machatý (actor) as "Detective Tom Machata".
Dagmar (actress: Anny Ondráková) and Ješek (actor: Karel Lamač) - "arrival from the darkness"- the ancestor of the landowner Dražický watch themselves.
The elderly Mr Máček likes young women and girls and he always takes the opportunity to try to make their acquaintance. He is only sorry he is not younger. When he discovers the existence of an elix...