Pete Smith Movies

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

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas...

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

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

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

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

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

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 humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

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

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

A Pete Smith Specialty. A documentary that explains the answers to questions about Portuguese man-of-war fish and the Rosetta Stone, among others.

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

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

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...