Pete Smith Movies

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

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

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...

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

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.

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...

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

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

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

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard...