Pete Smith Movies

This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations.

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

The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas...

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals.

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

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...

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

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 humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

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

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...

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble...

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