Pete Smith Movies

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble...

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...

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

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 Pete Smith Specialty.

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...

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

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

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

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

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

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

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.