Pete Smith Movies

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. A documentary that explains the answers to questions about Portuguese man-of-war fish and the Rosetta Stone, among others.

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.

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

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 demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases the Cristiani Family, a circus act. They mount and dismount moving horses and perform acrobatic feats while...