Pete Smith Movies

A review of the 1937 football season.

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

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

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

Humorous look at fantasy gadgets like ketchup in a tube, tilting book shelves, etc.

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

A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and...

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

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

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...

A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short.

A Pete Smith Specialty. A documentary that explains the answers to questions about Portuguese man-of-war fish and the Rosetta Stone, among others.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.

A comic short filled with fake news and a fake movie trailer made up of clips from silent movies.

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

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

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

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

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...