Pete Smith Movies

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

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

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.

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different...

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

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

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...

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

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

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...

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

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

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

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

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

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

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