Pete Smith Movies

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.

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

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

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...

An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.

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

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

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...

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

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

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

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

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

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.

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

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.