Pete Smith Movies

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

In this Sports Champions entry, power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California's Salton Sea.

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...

This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. Classic high spots from last year's football landmarks.

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

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.

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

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.

In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

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...

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...