William C. Paley Movies

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.

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...

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

"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...

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...

The title is as detailed as any description can get.

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

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.