Pete Smith Movies

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...

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard...

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

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.

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

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.