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.

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 Passion Play of Oberammergau (1898) presents scenes from the famed Bavarian passion play, dramatizing the final days of Jesus Christ—from...

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

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...

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...

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

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

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 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...

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

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.

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

Views of the burial in Key West of victims of the USS Maine.

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

"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...

Soldiers setting up camp.