Pete Smith

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

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This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...

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This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the...

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A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

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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...

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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....

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

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The unusual talents of Johnny Price, a minor league baseball pitcher and trick artist, are showcased in this Pete Smith Specialty. Among other...

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In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

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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...

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In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.

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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...

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With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...

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A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

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A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

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Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of...

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

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In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

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It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

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This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

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This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

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This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

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