"William Randolph Hearst began experimenting with news footage before the turn of the century. In February, 1914, Hearst's organization began producing its first regularly released 'newsreel'. Over the years, the Hearst Corporation was either solely or jointly responsible for over a dozen different newsreel series. In 1981, the Hearst Corporation donated its newsreel library to the UCLA Film and Television Archive. This collection is one of the largest of its kind and contains material from six newsreel series produced by Hearst between 1919 and 1967. The most notable of these are International News, MGM Newsreel, Hearst Metrotone News and News of the Day. This program is an attempt to give an overview of the collection. We will begin with footage from the silent era and end with a newsreel from the early days of World War II. It was during this period of slightly over two decades that the familiar newsreel format was born. Early sound newsreels were often little more than silent newsreels with an ambient soundtrack; rather than voice-over narration, title cards were used to announce the next subject and frequently these titles appeared throughout a given story. It was not until the middle '30s that the standard newsreel format began to appear, characterized by a constant voice-over narration, background music and newspaper-style divisions." -Blaine Bartell Highlights of tonight's program include rare footage of the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, anti-war rallies at UC Berkeley in the 1930s, a mid-Depression clip of Franklin D. Roosevelt urging confidence in the nation's banks, coverage of the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the Lindbergh kidnapping and dramatic footage of the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia.