Pete Smith Movies

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

Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.

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

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

This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals.

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

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

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

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

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

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

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

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different...

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

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

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

A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short.