Movies: William C. Paley

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

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

"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..."...

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

The title is as detailed as any description can get....

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....

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

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

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 'forward march' and the column approaches the audience. A fine looking body of men, worthy of a people...

The famous Madison Square Garden forms the background of this excellent picture. A number of very fine automobiles pass in this strip, coming close to the camera and show clear and life size. A very strange coincidence in the closing of the picture i...

"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 Edison Catalog...

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

"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 pass."...

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

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

Soldiers setting up camp....

Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry....

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

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 hundreds upon hundreds of ammunition cases....