Pete Smith Movies

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

A "Pete Smith Specialty" short that looks at legendary movie stuntman Harry Woolman planning and rehearsing stunts for films.

A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.

In this "Pete Smith Specialty Short," advice is given on how to deal with certain common pests.

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...

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

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

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

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...