Pete Smith Movies

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the...

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

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

A "Pete Smith Specialty" short that looks at legendary movie stuntman Harry Woolman planning and rehearsing stunts for films.

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.

This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

Swing High is a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film directed by Jack Cummings. In 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th...

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...

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...

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some...

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...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

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

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