Movies: Pete Smith

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert....

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....

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

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be....

A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819....

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

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 Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Novelty). The film documents The Flying Codonas, a family of fly...

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

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

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects....

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

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

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained....

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

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony of enduring the dieting and weight-losing programs and exercises is compounded by the usual food-and...

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

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget for their plans to get married. His budget, alas, does not include nor anticipate the plans of Sally a...

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works ...

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store....

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