Robert Gitt, Preservation Officer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, presents an illustrated talk on the history of sound for motion pictures, covering the past one hundred years from Edison cylinders to Dolby Stereo. Gitt's presentation, while touching on many technical issues, will be informative and entertaining for a general audience, with many fascinating film excerpts. Among them are rare examples of turn-of-the-century pioneer processes, followed by a look at Warner Bros.' Vitaphone sound-on-disc process with clips including The Better 'Ole (1926) with Sydney Chaplin; Lights of New York (1928), the first all-talking feature; The Terror (1928), the first talking horror film, with spoken main-title credits; Sally (1930), an "all talking, all singing, all dancing" color musical, as well as Vitaphone shorts. Rival sound-on-film processes will be discussed, and extracts shown from early sound-on-film newsreels, shorts, and such features as DeMille's The Godless Girl (1928). Artistic use of sound will be explored in Lubitsch's The Love Parade (1929) and in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932). The many advances made in optical soundtracks in the 1930s and 1940s will be demonstrated in excerpts from Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and Citizen Kane (1941), among others. The talk moves on to magnetic stereo recording, introduced in the 1950s, and early experiments with optical stereo recording and modern Dolby Stereo tracks.