Pete Smith Filmes

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

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

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

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

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

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

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...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

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.

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check...