Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and...

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...

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,...

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...

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

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases the Cristiani Family, a circus act. They mount and dismount moving horses and perform acrobatic feats while...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...

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 short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring. Slow motion is used...