Pete Smith Movies

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

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...

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...

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

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

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

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects...

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

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

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases the Cristiani Family, a circus act. They mount and dismount moving horses and perform acrobatic feats while...

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

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

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 Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...