Movies: William C. Paley

"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 Edison Catalog...

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

The famous Madison Square Garden forms the background of this excellent picture. A number of very fine automobiles pass in this strip, coming close to the camera and show clear and life size. A very strange coincidence in the closing of the picture i...

The steamer 'Mascotte' has reached her dock at Port Tampa, and the 2nd Battalion of Colored Infantry is going ashore....

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

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

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 14th Street Wigwam, accompanied by a number of prominent New York politicians....

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

The title is as detailed as any description can get....

"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..."...

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

"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 pass."...