Pete Smith Movies

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

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...

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

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

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

A "Pete Smith Specialty" short that looks at legendary movie stuntman Harry Woolman planning and rehearsing stunts for films.

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.

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

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...

A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

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

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

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

A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.

This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real...

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

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 Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...