Introduced by Blaine Bartell, Senior Newsreel PreservationistIn 1997 the UCLA Archive launched a project that will ultimately preserve twenty-five hours of Hearst newsreel film shot in California. This first program consists of footage from several different Hearst newsreel series released between 1919 and 1948. Highlights include the aftermath of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake, construction and dedication of the Golden Gate Bridge (1933-1937), the opening of Alcatraz prison in 1933, the 1942 Japanese submarine attack off Santa Barbara, the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, and VJ Day on Market Street in San Francisco. Several stories trace the false conviction and imprisonment of Tom Mooney for a 1916 bombing in San Francisco in which ten people died and forty were injured. Mooney, well known locally as a socialist and labor organizer, was tried and sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he eventually served more than twenty-two years in prison (before the) "full and unconditional" pardon announced by Governor Culbert Olson on a nationwide radio broadcast in 1939. Lighter subjects include Our Gang cast members Alfalfa and Spanky shown in 1937 asking Mussolini's son, Vittorio, for jobs should they go to Italy.-Blaine BartellPreservation funded by the Ahmanson Foundation.