Pete Smith Movies

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different...

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.