Pete Smith Movies

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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

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

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

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

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

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

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

A ten-minute short starring Hollywood producer Pete Smith.

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

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

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

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

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

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

A Pete Smith Specialty.

This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...