Pete Smith Movies

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

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

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

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...

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases the Cristiani Family, a circus act. They mount and dismount moving horses and perform acrobatic feats while...

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

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 MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real...

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