Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

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

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

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble...

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...

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...

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them.

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

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check...

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

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

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

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

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...