Pete Smith Movies

A review of the 1937 football season.

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

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

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

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

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.

This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.

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

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

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...

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a...

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

A comic short filled with fake news and a fake movie trailer made up of clips from silent movies.