Pete Smith Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

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

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

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

Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.

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

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