Pete Smith Filmes

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

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

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

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

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

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

Swing High is a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film directed by Jack Cummings. In 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th...

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

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

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...

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B....

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

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 offers a look at Marineland of Florida, featuring the various marine life on display there.

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.