Movies

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...

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.

A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.

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

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...

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

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.

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

An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.

A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.

A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."

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

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

Tells the story of young Willie Mosconi. From growing up with his father's pool hall downstairs to his first US Championship.

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...

This Pete Smith Specialty short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring. Slow motion is used...

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...

It's Thanksgiving. Newlywed husband Abner Poodlebean faces the turkey his wife has prepared: she wants him to carve it at the table in front of her...

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...