William C. Paley Movies

CBS honors Lucille Ball with this celebration of her three CBS series: I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.

"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...

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...

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

"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...

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

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

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

Look before you leap, at hasty conclusions. Nell is a sweet girl and Bob is a good fellow; Nell is a typical Texas girl and Bob is a comparative...

"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...

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of...

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

Taken at the Cuban Volunteer Camp at West Tampa, Fla. Men are falling into line, two abreast, every man with his tin cup and dish. Command is given...

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

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..."

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...

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

Soldiers setting up camp.