Pete Smith Movies

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

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

A review of the 1937 football season.

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.

Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.

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

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

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

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...

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

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,...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.