Movies: Pete Smith

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season....

In this Sports Champions entry, power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California's Salton Sea....

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride....

This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily Rock) above Idyllwild. The various climbing techniques are explained, as well as the dangers one encount...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places....

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...

Pete Smith special about billiard....

This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big Pines L.A. County Camp for some winter sports including sledding, skating, and ski jumping....

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny....

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys....

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments....

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

A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt....

With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then wrestled in a small rowboat near Baja, the largest (721 pounds) great white shark caught to date in Cali...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?...

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform various tricks and feats of skill in their sport....

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of the discovery of radium and how it is used in medicine. In 1937, it was nominated for an Academy Awa...

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled....

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