Pete Smith Movies

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different...

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

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

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

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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

Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.

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

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

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

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

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

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...

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