Pete Smith Movies

This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.

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

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

Pete Smith special about billiard.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

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

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

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

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

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

A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...

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...

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

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the...

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...