Pete Smith Movies

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

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

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...

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

This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...

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

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

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

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

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

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

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

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

This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming

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...

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

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

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

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