Pete Smith Movies

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

Tells the story of young Willie Mosconi. From growing up with his father's pool hall downstairs to his first US Championship.

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...

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

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

A comic short filled with fake news and a fake movie trailer made up of clips from silent movies.

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...

This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.

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

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

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

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

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

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects...

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...

The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.

The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas...

A Pete Smith Specialty. A documentary that explains the answers to questions about Portuguese man-of-war fish and the Rosetta Stone, among others.