Pete Smith Movies

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

A Pete Smith Specialty. A documentary that explains the answers to questions about Portuguese man-of-war fish and the Rosetta Stone, among others.

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

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas...

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

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

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

Pete Smith special about billiard.

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

Humorous look at fantasy gadgets like ketchup in a tube, tilting book shelves, etc.

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.

Tells the story of young Willie Mosconi. From growing up with his father's pool hall downstairs to his first US Championship.

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

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

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