Pete Smith Movies

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

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

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty shows water-safety and life-saving techniques taught by the American Red Cross to advanced swimmers.

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

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

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

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

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 review of the 1937 football season.

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

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...

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 Pete Smith Specialty.

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

A Pete Smith Specialty. Classic high spots from last year's football landmarks.

The second "Pete Smith Special" dealing with Fala, the pet dog of the late-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died long before the release of this...