Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming

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

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

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

Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

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

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

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects...

Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them.