Pete Smith Movies

A Pete Smith Specialty.

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

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.

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 eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

A comic short filled with fake news and a fake movie trailer made up of clips from silent movies.

A review of the 1937 football season.

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

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

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

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

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...

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

This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.

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