William C. Paley Movies

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

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...

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

Hurrah here they come! Hot, dusty, grim and determined! Real soldiers, every inch of them! No gold lace and chalked belts and shoulder straps...

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

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.

"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...

"The commander of the 5th Army Corps rides forward with a party of officers. He wears a white helmet, a broad expanse of shirt bosom and a general...

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

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