Pete Smith Movies

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...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

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...

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.

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

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

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

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

This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.

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

Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and...

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

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

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

This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big...

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble...

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

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