Movies

A review of the 1937 football season.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.

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

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

A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

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

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.

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and...

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...

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

Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...

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

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

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

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