Movies: Pete Smith

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

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California....

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented...

A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code....

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

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

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat....

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B. Birdbrain bumbles his way through building a backyard badminton court. (This film is played in its entirety...

A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and size measuring terms and protocols, race track gambling lingo, harness racing lingo and training techni...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith....

This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life....

This "Pete Smith Specialty" features narrated clips of acrobats and stunt performers who earn their living in unusual and exciting ways....

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

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his fath...

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodra...

This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and teamwork of sports and how these qualities are translated into the weapons training of American soldi...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Exampl...

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected....

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 like. Next, the "Wotaphony Newsreel" shows clips of early experimental aircraft failing to fly. The ...