Pete Smith Movies

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

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

In this Sports Champions entry, power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California's Salton Sea.

This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming

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

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...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.

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

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

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,...

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

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

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

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

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

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

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. Classic high spots from last year's football landmarks.