Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty shows water-safety and life-saving techniques taught by the American Red Cross to advanced swimmers.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard...

This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big...

This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals.

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...

A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.

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

A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

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

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