Pete Smith Movies

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases the Cristiani Family, a circus act. They mount and dismount moving horses and perform acrobatic feats while...

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

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

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...

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

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

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

This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.