Pete Smith Movies

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

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

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

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

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...

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

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

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

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

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...