Pete Smith Movies

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

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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...

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

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...

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a...

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

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...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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