Pete Smith Movies

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

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

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...

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

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

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

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,...

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...

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

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...

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.

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 little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

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

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

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

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