Pete Smith Movies

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.

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

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

After their mother remarries, two brothers cause chaos at their Aunt's home.

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

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

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

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check...

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

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

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 review of the 1937 football season.

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a...

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

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