William C. Paley Movies

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..."

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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.