Pete Smith Movies

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...

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...

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

In this Sports Champions entry, power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California's Salton Sea.

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

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

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

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

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check...

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

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

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

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