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Early days of Czechoslovakian independence, 1918. Archive film 92744

The formation of Czechoslovakia after World War One. Czechoslovakia is liberated from Habsburg (or Hapsburg) rule and declares independence on 28 October 1918. The Franz Joseph Bridge in Prague is renamed President Wilson Bridge. The Yugoslav delegation is greeted. Women in girls in traditional Czechoslovakian dress wave. Czechoslovakian soldiers. Czechoslovakian troops arrive from the Italian Army. They lean out of carriage windows with guns. Soldiers hold Czechoslovakian flag. Troops return from the Austrian Army. They march. Covering statue of Radecky. Cartoons of the Kaiser and Crown Prince hanging on wall. Troops depart for Slovakia to hold the border against Hungary. The carriage they travel on have flower-bedecked wheels. Battisti, the brother of the executed Italian Deputy in a car in army uniform with comrades. Deputies arrive from Switzerland. Czecho-Slovak National Assembly - the first meeting. Soldiers barracks in Prague with ten or so soldiers lining up. Dr Scheiner, President of the Sokol Gymnastic Association. He holds forth. U.S. and U.K. flags. Inspection of troops in the Old Town Square showing the John Hus Monument. Marching soldiers. Thick crowd.