Pete Smith Movies

Pete Smith special about billiard.

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

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 "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 Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B....

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...

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...

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

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming

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

This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

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

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different...