Pete Smith Movies

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...

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty shows water-safety and life-saving techniques taught by the American Red Cross to advanced swimmers.

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

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

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

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

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

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

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...

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.