Pete Smith Movies

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

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.

After their mother remarries, two brothers cause chaos at their Aunt's home.

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...