Pete Smith Movies

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

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

In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

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

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard...

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

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

This "Pete Smith Specialty" features narrated clips of acrobats and stunt performers who earn their living in unusual and exciting ways.

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and...

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

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

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 Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...

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