Pete Smith Movies

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.

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

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

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

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.

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

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

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

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

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.

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

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.

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

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.

An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...