Pete Smith Movies

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

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.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.