Pete Smith Movies
- 1934
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama71934HD
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
- 1944
Movie Pests
Movie Pests5.61944HD
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
- 1934
Strikes and Spares
Strikes and Spares5.6361934HD
This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the...
- 1952
Reducing
Reducing21952HD
Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...
- 1935
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara5.71935HD
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...
- 1942
The Tree in a Test Tube
The Tree in a Test Tube4.91942HD
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...
- 1946
Sure Cures
Sure Cures51946HD
This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.
- 1951
Fishing Feats
Fishing Feats01951HD
With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...
- 1943
Seeing Hands
Seeing Hands5.31943HD
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...
- 1948
Just Suppose
Just Suppose61948HD
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...
- 1945
The Great Morgan
The Great Morgan5.51945HD
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...
- 1939
Radio Hams
Radio Hams61939HD
A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.
- 1939
Weather Wizards
Weather Wizards61939HD
Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...
- 1944
Safety Sleuth
Safety Sleuth01944HD
Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.
- 1949
Water Trix
Water Trix5.61949HD
In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...
- 1941
Army Champions
Army Champions5.51941HD
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...
- 2002
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story02002HD
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...
- 1954
Film Antics
Film Antics51954HD
An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.
- 1933
Menu
Menu5.11933HD
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
- 1937
Romance of Radium
Romance of Radium5.81937HD
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...