Pete Smith Movies

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...

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.

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...

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...

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

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of...

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations.

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and...