Pete Smith Movies

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

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

In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

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

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.

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

How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

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

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

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...

A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.

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 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...

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...

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