Pete Smith Movies

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...

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

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

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

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

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

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

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

In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

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

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

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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