Pete Smith Movies

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B....

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.

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

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

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

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

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

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...

This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.

A review of the 1937 football season.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

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...

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

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...