Pete Smith Movies

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard...

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

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

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

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...

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

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

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented