Pete Smith Movies

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

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,...

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

The second "Pete Smith Special" dealing with Fala, the pet dog of the late-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died long before the release of this...

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

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

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

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

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty shows water-safety and life-saving techniques taught by the American Red Cross to advanced swimmers.

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects...

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

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

Pete Smith special about billiard.

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...