Pete Smith Movies

This Pete Smith Specialty offers a look at Marineland of Florida, featuring the various marine life on display there.

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

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

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

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

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

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

A "Pete Smith Specialty" short that looks at legendary movie stuntman Harry Woolman planning and rehearsing stunts for films.

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

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

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

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

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...

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

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

This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming