Pete Smith Movies

The unusual talents of Johnny Price, a minor league baseball pitcher and trick artist, are showcased in this Pete Smith Specialty. Among other...

This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.

This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...

A Pete Smith Specialty explaining the finer points of meat carving, shown by an expert.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...

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

This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.

This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.

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...

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

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

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

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

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...