Pete Smith Movies

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

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

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

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

Humorous look at fantasy gadgets like ketchup in a tube, tilting book shelves, etc.

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas...

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 satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.