U.S. cavalry supplies unloading at Tampa, Florida /

"Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry. In the foreground a score of troopers are pulling, lifting and hauling an ambulance from a flat car. It slides down the inclined planks with a sudden rush that makes the men "hustle" to keep it from falling off. Drill engine on the next track darts past with sharp quick puffs of smoke. A very brisk scene"--Edison films "war extra" catalog.
31431 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 20May1898; 31431.
Original main title lacking.
Camera, William Paley.
Duration: 0:30 at 24 fps.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0038) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Filmed May 1, 1898, in Tampa, Florida.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, p. 424; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 346; Edison films "war extra" catalog, May 10, 1898, p. 2 [MI; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed June 6, 2014.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.