Pete Smith Movies

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

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

An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.

This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

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.

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

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...