Pete Smith Movies

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

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...

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

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

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

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...

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

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

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

A Pete Smith Specialty.

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

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

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

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...

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...

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

In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

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

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