Pete Smith Movies

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

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

This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

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

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B....

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

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

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...