William C. Paley Movies

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

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

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

Reporters rush to telegraph the latest war news.

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

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

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

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

"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..."

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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

"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...