Pete Smith Movies

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...

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

A "Pete Smith Specialty" short that looks at legendary movie stuntman Harry Woolman planning and rehearsing stunts for films.

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

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

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

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

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