Pete Smith Movies

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

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

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

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of...

A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the...

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

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

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

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the...

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

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

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...