Pete Smith Movies

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

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...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty offers a look at Marineland of Florida, featuring the various marine life on display there.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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

Swing High is a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film directed by Jack Cummings. In 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th...

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

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 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 dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the...

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

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.

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 short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...