Pete Smith Movies

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

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

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

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

Swing High is a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film directed by Jack Cummings. In 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th...

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...

An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.

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

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

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

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...

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.

This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations.

Humorous look at fantasy gadgets like ketchup in a tube, tilting book shelves, etc.

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...