Movies: Pete Smith

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

This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers....

This "Pete Smith Specialty" features narrated clips of acrobats and stunt performers who earn their living in unusual and exciting ways....

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline....

Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms....

This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations....

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

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances....

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

A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn't have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check was written on Friday afternoon, but cannot be cashed before the following Tuesday. The check is use...

The profession of capturing animals in action on celluloid is both an art and science. Some of the most exciting footage can be obtained in different ways. Examples are: a large herd, such as of reindeer, moving as one; slow motion footage of fast mo...

Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor...

This Pete Smith Specialty offers a look at Marineland of Florida, featuring the various marine life on display there....

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 unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodra...

After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects move towards the camera, including a ladder being shoved out a window, the slide on a trombone, a woma...

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 citrus groves of Southern California. First, the scientists predict the storm's course, giving sever...

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three....

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

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse Pistol Pete," produced by Super-Stupid Pictures. It consists of excerpts from an unidentified silent ...

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