Pete Smith Movies

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

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

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

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

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...

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

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

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

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

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

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

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

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

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

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