Pete Smith Movies

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

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

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

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

A "Pete Smith Specialty". Three sea lions gatecrash the kitchen of a beach house, steal some goodies, then go on to cause chaos at the party.

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

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...

A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty offers a look at Marineland of Florida, featuring the various marine life on display there.

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

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

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...

A Pete Smith Specialty.

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

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

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