Movies: Pete Smith

The second "Pete Smith Special" dealing with Fala, the pet dog of the late-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died long before the release of this short. Smith provides the commenary and narration from Fala's "diary" as the dog visits his favorite ...

In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back....

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

After their mother remarries, two brothers cause chaos at their Aunt's home....

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor...

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As the audience views footage from unidentified silent movies, the narrator makes humorous comments whil...

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

A Pete Smith Specialty. The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics. Reliving past games of Notrè Dame-Navy, Southern California-Illinois, Fordham-Pitt and Princeton-Vanderbilt....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure....

Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos....

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a menacing bobcat, he experiences the dangers in a vacant cabin....

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics....

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods....

Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms....

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband", takes place in 1911 and is a voiced-over silent....

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 audience sees scenes from a totally unrelated, unidentified silent movie. Then comes a "Wotaphony" news...

A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process....

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and upon whom objects fell) when he played hapless characters throughout the series. Under the pseudonym "D...

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