Pete Smith Movies

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...

A Pete Smith Specialty.

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms.

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

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

The unusual talents of Johnny Price, a minor league baseball pitcher and trick artist, are showcased in this Pete Smith Specialty. Among other...

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

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 chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

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

A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and...