William C. Paley Movies

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

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...

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

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

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

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

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...

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

"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..."

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