Pete Smith Movies

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

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...

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

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring. Slow motion is used...

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big...

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

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

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.