William C. Paley Movies

CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.

Look before you leap, at hasty conclusions. Nell is a sweet girl and Bob is a good fellow; Nell is a typical Texas girl and Bob is a comparative...

First comes the Chief's sleigh with old-fashioned side runners, containing the Chief and his driver. Next comes a chemical engine mounted on a stout...

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

Shows the despatch boat of the 'New York Journal' steaming through the water, having aboard the war correspondents.

The title is as detailed as any description can get.

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are...

A wide plain, dotted with tents, gleaming in white in the bright sunshine. Soldiers moving about everywhere...

The famous Madison Square Garden forms the background of this excellent picture. A number of very fine automobiles pass in this strip, coming close...

When Battery B of the 4th U.S. Artillery came to Tampa, Fla., it meant business, and the picture shows it. One by one the big artillery-men pass by...

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

A group of escaped reconcentrados, saved from the fate of starvation imposed by the Butcher, Weyler.

"The first U.S. Troops to land, June 22, 1898. Transports in the distance. Soldiers clamber up from boats onto the long railroad pier." - from the...

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

This short film from the Edison Manufacturing Company shows, as the title pretty much sums up, some trained cavalry horses.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of...

A very lifelike picture of the famous New York politician and Tammany Hall boss. This picture was taken on Sunday morning [sic] as he was leaving the...

Taken at the Cuban Volunteer Camp at West Tampa, Fla. Men are falling into line, two abreast, every man with his tin cup and dish. Command is given...