Pete Smith Movies

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...

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...

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

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

Pete Smith special about billiard.

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

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

In this Sports Champions entry, power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California's Salton Sea.

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

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.

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" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.

A comic short filled with fake news and a fake movie trailer made up of clips from silent movies.

The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas...

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