Pete Smith Movies

  • 1934
    Roping Wild Bears

    Roping Wild Bears

    Roping Wild Bears

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

    Roping Wild Bears
  • 1940
    'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two

    'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two

    'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two

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

    'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
  • 1970
    Football Thrills of 1939

    Football Thrills of 1939

    Football Thrills of 1939

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

    Football Thrills of 1939
  • 1939
    Set 'em Up

    Set 'em Up

    Set 'em Up

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    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...

    Set 'em Up
  • 1934
    Goofy Movies Number Six

    Goofy Movies Number Six

    Goofy Movies Number Six

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

    Goofy Movies Number Six
  • 1934
    Goofy Movies Number Eight

    Goofy Movies Number Eight

    Goofy Movies Number Eight

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

    Goofy Movies Number Eight
  • 1952
    Reducing

    Reducing

    Reducing

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    Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

    Reducing
  • 1939
    Heroes at Leisure

    Heroes at Leisure

    Heroes at Leisure

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    This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.

    Heroes at Leisure
  • 1942
    Football Thrills of 1941

    Football Thrills of 1941

    Football Thrills of 1941

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

    Football Thrills of 1941
  • 1946
    Sure Cures

    Sure Cures

    Sure Cures

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

    Sure Cures
  • 1938
    Hot on Ice

    Hot on Ice

    Hot on Ice

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    How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.

    Hot on Ice
  • 1944
    Movie Pests

    Movie Pests

    Movie Pests

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    This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

    Movie Pests
  • 1955
    Animals in Action

    Animals in Action

    Animals in Action

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    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...

    Animals in Action
  • 1935
    Donkey Baseball

    Donkey Baseball

    Donkey Baseball

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

    Donkey Baseball
  • 1950
    Did'ja Know?

    Did'ja Know?

    Did'ja Know?

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    This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father? How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year? Why do...

    Did'ja Know?
  • 1939
    Poetry of Nature

    Poetry of Nature

    Poetry of Nature

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

    Poetry of Nature
  • 1943
    Seventh Column

    Seventh Column

    Seventh Column

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    This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

    Seventh Column
  • 1941
    Lions on the Loose

    Lions on the Loose

    Lions on the Loose

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

    Lions on the Loose
  • 1939
    Culinary Carving

    Culinary Carving

    Culinary Carving

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

    Culinary Carving
  • 1940
    Maintain the Right

    Maintain the Right

    Maintain the Right

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    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...

    Maintain the Right