Pete Smith Movies

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

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

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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

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...

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

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

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

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.

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

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

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

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

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,...