Pete Smith Movies

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

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

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

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

This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...

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 comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.

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

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

Pete Smith special about billiard.

A Pete Smith Specialty. 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.

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

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

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

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...