Pete Smith Movies

A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

A Pete Smith Specialty.

A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

Tells the story of young Willie Mosconi. From growing up with his father's pool hall downstairs to his first US Championship.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

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

A "Pete Smith Specialty". Three sea lions gatecrash the kitchen of a beach house, steal some goodies, then go on to cause chaos at the party.

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

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

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

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

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...

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

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

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