Movies: William C. Paley

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 Edison Catalog...

A most excellent picture of the grim old fortress which stands at the entrance of Havana Harbor......

"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..."...

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

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....

"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."...

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 hundreds upon hundreds of ammunition cases....

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

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......