Pete Smith Movies

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

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...

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

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

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

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

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the...