Pete Smith Movies

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects...

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

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring. Slow motion is used...

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real...

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

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.

Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and...

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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 humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some...

Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms.

The second "Pete Smith Special" dealing with Fala, the pet dog of the late-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died long before the release of this...