Pete Smith Movies

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

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

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

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

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.

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

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and...

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

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

After their mother remarries, two brothers cause chaos at their Aunt's home.

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 short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.