Pete Smith Movies

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

A Pete Smith Specialty. Classic high spots from last year's football landmarks.

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

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.

Humorous look at fantasy gadgets like ketchup in a tube, tilting book shelves, etc.

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

A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and...

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

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

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

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

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

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

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

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

Tells the story of young Willie Mosconi. From growing up with his father's pool hall downstairs to his first US Championship.

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

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