Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...

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

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects...

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...

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

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

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals.

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

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

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...

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

An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.