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...

This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big...

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

Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them.

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some...

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

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

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.