William C. Paley Movies

Soldiers setting up camp.

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...

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

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

"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..."

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.

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...

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

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

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...