William C. Paley Movies

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

"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.

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

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

First comes the Chief's sleigh with old-fashioned side runners, containing the Chief and his driver. Next comes a chemical engine mounted on a stout...

The famous Madison Square Garden forms the background of this excellent picture. A number of very fine automobiles pass in this strip, coming close...

"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...

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...

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

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