Pete Smith Movies

Swing High is a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film directed by Jack Cummings. In 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th...

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

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

An exmination of the sport of championship diving.

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....

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

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.

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

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

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

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

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...

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...

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

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

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...