Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.

A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and...

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

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...

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

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

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 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...

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and...

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

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

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a...