Josef Sádlo

"Interesting, of course, I only know this from the stories, the Sokols bought the cinema to earn money to buy the materials for the Sokolovna. So it was actually still originally a silent cinema, so at that time there was no electricity in Byšice, no normal network. O it was being taken from the mill... There's a generator or dynamo that powered the arc lamp on that cinema. The cinema needs a lot of light to project onto the screen. In those days there was still - like some of those farm machines, cutting machines - a big wheel where the film was moved by gears. And in the hall there was Mr. Čížek on the violin and Mr. Adamec playing the piano. Because the cinema was silent, of course. So I only know it from the story. And then, when the cinema was already sounded, there were various films, especially after the war, it was the American films that we looked forward to."

"The train is going through Vysočany - Prague Vysočany. The first stop is Satalice. Before you get to Satalice, you go through some rocks. And that's where they stopped us. There was an alarm, so of course we got off, we looked what was going on. And we saw that there were individual German planes lined up on the tarmac in that Kbely airfield. And these so-called low-level bomber were pouring in on these planes and shooting at them. So they were destroying these planes that were on the platform. And that was an experience for us, of course. It was strange until it was over. Which again, it wasn't a long raid. And then it swung away and the train went on."