Pete Smith Movies

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

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

A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.

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

Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the...

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

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

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

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

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

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

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...

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