Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

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

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

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

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

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

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

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

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

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

Pete Smith special about billiard.

This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

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

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...

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a...

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....