William C. Paley Movies

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...

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down...

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...

The steamer 'Mascotte' has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2nd Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore.

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

Taken in Havana Harbor from a moving launch, and shows the wreck of the 'Maine' surrounded by wrecking boats and other vessels...

This boat was the first one to leave for the South with troops. On board is a battalion of the 5th U.S. Infantry.

A most excellent picture of the grim old fortress which stands at the entrance of Havana Harbor...

"Shows 34th Michigan boys hard at work with pick and shovel, preparing the way for passage of seige guns."

"Imagine forty or fifty soldier boys each with a pail of water on the ground before him, sousing and spattering and scrubbing away for dear life..."

"A great pack train approaches rapidly, following the gray bell-mule. Cowboys dash to and fro, keeping them bunched. Clouds of dust arise as they...