Pete Smith Movies

In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.

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

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...

Five years after he narrated STRIKES AND SPARES, Pete Smith returns to the subject of bowling with two pros: Andy Varipapa, who threw some trick...

This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...

In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.

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

Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.

The annual compendium of highlights from last season's major intercollegiate gridiron classics.

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

A review of the 1937 football season.

This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a...

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

Under Pete's Smith's narration, this one-reeler tells the story of the training of three new recruits in the Canadian Northwest Mounted. When they...

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

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

Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.