Pete Smith Movies

Pete Smith special about billiard.

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

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

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

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and...

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

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

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

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

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.

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

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...

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...