Pete Smith Movies

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

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

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...

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

Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.

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

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

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

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 "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...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different...

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...

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

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.