Pete Smith Movies

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real...

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

A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

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

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

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

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

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the...

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

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...

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

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,...

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

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