100 years of Czech Radio

See the sound. Radio through the eyes of filmmakers

A series of short films from the 1930s to the 1960s from the collections of the National Film Archive, screened on the occasion of this year's 100th birthday of Czech Radio. It will offer reports from weekly newspapers, as well as documentaries and animated films that will bring to light the relationship between film and radio at a time when sound was a more accessible medium than image. The films have been selected by radio historians Tomáš Dufka and Dušan Radovanovič, who will accompany the screening with their commentary.

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Czechoslovakia / 1937 / 1 min.

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All By Will's Adventures

Irena Dodalová, Karel Dodal

Czechoslovakia / 1936 / 8 min.

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The film is a part of the lecture. Feuilleton about the background of radio reports in Hradec Králové.

Czechoslovak Film Weekly 1957 No. 38

Czechoslovakia / 1957 / 1 min.

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Preparations for All-Sokol Gathering.

Czechoslovak Week in Film 1948 No. 13

Czechoslovakia / 1948 / 2 min.

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MEVRO - International Radio Exhibition in Prague.

Czechoslovak Week in Film 1948 No. 22

Czechoslovakia / 1948 / 1 min.

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An excerpt combining a radio broadcast with footage from the first days of the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968.

First Hours of the Occupation

Czechoslovakia / 1968 / 13 min.

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The fight for radio 1945 in found-footage.

May Revolution in Prague May 1945

Czechoslovakia / 1945 / 21 min.

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Our National Team in Italy

Czechoslovakia / 1934 / 11 min.

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About radio activities.

Radio in Film II.

Czechoslovakia / 1941 / 11 min.

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1937. The result of the drawing of the millionth listener of Czech Radio on 9 December 1937. Drawing of the pool with the winners. A little girl pulls a number out of the pool. The winner is Julius Richter, a Sudeten German from Bohosudov. He says thank you in German. Jan Kučera congratulates him and hands him the prize - a new radio receiver. Jan Kučera has his back to the camera most of the time.

ZF 0339 - The result of the drawing of the millionth listener

Czechoslovakia / 1937 / 1 min.

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Approximately 1932. Footage of the newly built radio station in Brno. The Brno Radio Cabinet is broadcasting in the studio. Singer Máňa Maratová and actors Valentin Šindler and Václav Šindler are standing at microphones. Valentin Šindler is dressed in the costume of Uncle Křópal and Václav in the costume of Josef Melhoba. Semi-detail of the announcer Jan Liska sitting at the microphone.

ZF 0535 - A spot from the newly built radio station in Brno

Czechoslovakia / 1932 / 4 min.

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1944. A rehearsal of a scene from Jiří Körber's play Rocks Over the River is taking place in the radio studio. Vlasta Fabianová and Jiří Dohnal are speaking their roles at the microphone. Across the table sit other actors, representing regulars in the pub. Among others Antonín Jedlička, Zdeněk Řehoř, Václav Švec and Dalibor Pták.

ZF 0801 - Rehearsal of the radio play Skála nad řekou

Czechoslovakia / 1944 / 2 min.

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