Pete Smith Movies

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

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

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

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

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...

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

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

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

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.

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

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

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...

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....

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.

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...

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

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

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

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.