Pete Smith Movies

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 short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

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

This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different...

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

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

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble...

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...