Pete Smith Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.

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

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...

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

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

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

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

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

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,...

A comic short filled with fake news and a fake movie trailer made up of clips from silent movies.

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...

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

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...