Pete Smith Movies

This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...

A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that...

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

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

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

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

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...

Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.

This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...

Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.

Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio,...

Pete Smith special about billiard.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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