Pete Smith Movies

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

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

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

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

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

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.

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

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

This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...

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...

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

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...

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

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

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

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

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...