Pete Smith Movies

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

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

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

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

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

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...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

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

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.