Pete Smith Movies

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring. Slow motion is used...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...

Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them.

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

The second "Pete Smith Special" dealing with Fala, the pet dog of the late-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died long before the release of this...

This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and...

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...

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...

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