Pete Smith Movies

  • 1939
    Culinary Carving

    Culinary Carving

    Culinary Carving

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    A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

    Culinary Carving
  • 1934
    Manhattan Melodrama

    Manhattan Melodrama

    Manhattan Melodrama

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    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.

    Manhattan Melodrama
  • 1937
    Penny Wisdom

    Penny Wisdom

    Penny Wisdom

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

    Penny Wisdom
  • 1933
    Handlebars

    Handlebars

    Handlebars

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    A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.

    Handlebars
  • 1938
    Grid Rules

    Grid Rules

    Grid Rules

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

    Grid Rules
  • 1932
    Swing High

    Swing High

    Swing High

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    Swing High is a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film directed by Jack Cummings. In 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th...

    Swing High
  • 1946
    Gettin' Glamour

    Gettin' Glamour

    Gettin' Glamour

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

    Gettin' Glamour
  • 1941
    Fancy Answers

    Fancy Answers

    Fancy Answers

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    In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

    Fancy Answers
  • 1937
    Candid Cameramaniacs

    Candid Cameramaniacs

    Candid Cameramaniacs

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

    Candid Cameramaniacs
  • 1946
    Sure Cures

    Sure Cures

    Sure Cures

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

    Sure Cures
  • 1946
    I Love My Husband, But!

    I Love My Husband, But!

    I Love My Husband, But!

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

    I Love My Husband, But!
  • 1952
    Reducing

    Reducing

    Reducing

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

    Reducing
  • 1951
    Bargain Madness

    Bargain Madness

    Bargain Madness

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

    Bargain Madness
  • 1939
    Marine Circus

    Marine Circus

    Marine Circus

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    This Pete Smith Specialty offers a look at Marineland of Florida, featuring the various marine life on display there.

    Marine Circus
  • 1935
    Trained Hoofs

    Trained Hoofs

    Trained Hoofs

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    This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

    Trained Hoofs
  • 1943
    Seeing Hands

    Seeing Hands

    Seeing Hands

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    This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

    Seeing Hands
  • 1940
    Wedding Bills

    Wedding Bills

    Wedding Bills

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    Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

    Wedding Bills
  • 1947
    I Love My Wife BUT!

    I Love My Wife BUT!

    I Love My Wife BUT!

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

    I Love My Wife BUT!
  • 1941
    Cuban Rhythm

    Cuban Rhythm

    Cuban Rhythm

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    In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some...

    Cuban Rhythm
  • 1951
    Camera Sleuth

    Camera Sleuth

    Camera Sleuth

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    In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

    Camera Sleuth