Pete Smith Movies

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

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...

Re-enactment of how the 726-carat Jonker diamond was discovered in South Africa in 1905 by the family of Jacobus Jonker; how it was sold to Harry...

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

This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.

This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...

In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...

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...

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...

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the...

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

An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.