Pete Smith
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1892-09-04
Geburtsort: New York City, New York, USA
Auch bekannt als: Peter Schmidt
Killer Dog
A dog accused of murdering sheep is brought to trial.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.08.29Popularität : 1.625
Let's Cogitate
Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.12.25Popularität : 0.314
Those Good Old Days
Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.04.16Popularität : 0.575
Water Wisdom
This Pete Smith Specialty shows water-safety and life-saving techniques taught by the American Red Cross to advanced swimmers.
Veröffentlichung : 1943.11.27Popularität : 1.434
Marine Circus
This Pete Smith Specialty offers a look at Marineland of Florida, featuring the various marine life on display there.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.11Popularität : 0.773
Throttle Pushers
Highlights the fast-paced and dangerous world of professional auto racing.
Veröffentlichung : 1933.04.01Popularität : 0.74
Neighbor Pests
Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.05.03Popularität : 2.302
Film Antics
An amusing short film that looks at human and animal babies.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.07.08Popularität : 3.264
Menu
A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.
Veröffentlichung : 1933.09.23Popularität : 2.478
Inflation
An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.
Veröffentlichung : 1933.06.15Popularität : 1.167
Romance of Radium
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.10.23Popularität : 4.653
Strikes and Spares
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.10.20Popularität : 5.278
Goofy Movies Number Seven
This comedy short contains a "Wotaphony" newsreel and a short film from Super-Stupid Pictures entitled "The Downfall of Thaddeus G. Blotto, Esq." As...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.09.18Popularität : 0.868
Penny Wisdom
A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.04.10Popularität : 1.285
Friend Indeed
Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.12.28Popularität : 3.283
Pigskin Champions
The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.08.14Popularität : 1.897
The New Audioscopiks
A Pete Smith short that deals with the newly-created 3-D process.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.01.16Popularität : 0.998
Fisticuffs
This Pete Smith Specialty short showcases former heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer with various sparring partners in the ring. Slow motion is used...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.08.27Popularität : 1.096
Three on a Rope
This short looks at the sport of rock climbing. A team of three men ascend a rock wall on Southern California's Tahquitz Rock (also known as Lily...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.02.19Popularität : 0.661
Guest Pests
An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.10.20Popularität : 0.925
Out for Fun
A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.05.08Popularität : 0.58
Swing High
Swing High is a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film directed by Jack Cummings. In 1932, it was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th...
Veröffentlichung : 1932.11.12Popularität : 3.453
Super Cue Men
Pete Smith special about billiard.
Veröffentlichung : 1949.01.29Popularität : 1.176
Double Diving
An exmination of the sport of championship diving.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.01.14Popularität : 0.606
The Tree in a Test Tube
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.11.19Popularität : 2.737
Hurling
A short film showing the Irish contact sport known as hurling, which is similar to, but much rougher than, American football.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.11.16Popularität : 0.413
Diamond Demon
The unusual talents of Johnny Price, a minor league baseball pitcher and trick artist, are showcased in this Pete Smith Specialty. Among other...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.02.01Popularität : 1.436
Stuffie
A little dog must learn to become friends with a big dog.
Veröffentlichung : 1940.03.02Popularität : 0.345
The Grand Bounce
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.05.22Popularität : 1.357
Let's Talk Turkey
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.10.28Popularität : 2.22
Set 'em Up
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.10.06Popularität : 0.896
Radio Hams
A "Pete Smith Specialty" - a fairly serious look at radio hams in the usual jokey format. Shows aircraft using morse code.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.05.19Popularität : 1.248
Trader Hound
Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure....
Veröffentlichung : 1931.04.08Popularität : 4.263
Fala: The President's Dog
Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms.
Veröffentlichung : 1943.04.10Popularität : 0.593
Hollywood Daredevils
A "Pete Smith Specialty" short that looks at legendary movie stuntman Harry Woolman planning and rehearsing stunts for films.
Veröffentlichung : 1943.03.20Popularität : 0.675
The Jonker Diamond
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.03.27Popularität : 2.115
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
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...
Veröffentlichung : 2002.02.05Popularität : 1.652
We Can Dream, Can't We?
Humorous look at fantasy gadgets like ketchup in a tube, tilting book shelves, etc.
Veröffentlichung : 1949.12.03Popularität : 0.576
Ain't It Aggravatin'
This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.02.06Popularität : 2.894
Goofy Movies Number Six
A comic short filled with fake news and a fake movie trailer made up of clips from silent movies.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.07.28Popularität : 0.662
Goofy Movies Number Ten
This entry in the "whole show on one reel" series begins with a do-it-yourself overture for which the narrator asks the audience to hum any song they...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.12.01Popularität : 1.132
Goofy Movies Number Eight
In this eighth installment in Pete Smith's Goofy Movies short films series, clips from silent films are given comedic narration.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.10.06Popularität : 0.928
Take a Cue
Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson,...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.08.12Popularität : 1.054
Goofy Movies Number One
The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas...
Veröffentlichung : 1933.12.23Popularität : 1.743
Things We Can Do Without
A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble...
Veröffentlichung : 1953.12.05Popularität : 0.556
Did'ja Know?
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.05.06Popularität : 1.757
Goofy Movies Number Four
This entry in the series starts with a "Wotaphony Newsreel," which contains feature stories with humorous commentary. Then we see "Passions of Horse...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.05.05Popularität : 1.001
Goofy Movies Number Five
In this short, Pete Smith provides comedic narration over silent film footage.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.06.06Popularität : 1.172
Handlebars
A humorous history of the bicycle since 1819.
Veröffentlichung : 1933.08.26Popularität : 0.886
Wedding Bills
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.11.13Popularität : 0.564
Third Dimensional Murder
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.03.01Popularität : 2.689
Goofy Movies Number Two
A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.02.24Popularität : 2.125
Goofy Movies Number Three
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.03.24Popularität : 0.655
Goofy Movies Number Nine
This comedic short presents a series of nonsensical news stories, in a "Wotaphony Newsreel". The reel's feature, "The Curse of an Aching Husband",...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.11.03Popularität : 0.599
Let's Dance
Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.01.04Popularität : 1.439
Candid Cameramaniacs
Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.12.11Popularität : 0.521
Bar-Rac's Night Out
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a raccoon spends the night looking for food for his family. After his encounters with a skunk, a frog, and a...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.02.27Popularität : 1.701
Sure Cures
This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.
Veröffentlichung : 1946.11.02Popularität : 0.395
Wanted - A Master
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1936.12.26Popularität : 0.988
Fishing Feats
With Pete Smith providing dry off-screen commentary, we watch some serious fishing: a marlin caught near Catalina, a hammerhead shark caught then...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.12.22Popularität : 1.174
The Fall Guy
In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.06.04Popularität : 1.749
Movie Pests
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
Veröffentlichung : 1944.07.08Popularität : 1.019
I Love My Husband, But!
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
Veröffentlichung : 1946.12.07Popularität : 0.629
Weather Wizards
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.04.08Popularität : 0.758
'What's Your 'I.Q.'?': Number Two
Questions and answers on various subjects, from Lady Godiva to the Panama Canal.
Veröffentlichung : 1940.08.08Popularität : 0.588
Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11
A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.05.18Popularität : 2.268
Roping Wild Bears
Wild bears that bother livestock are captured with ropes and shipped to zoos.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.02.10Popularität : 1.971
Fancy Answers
In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.11.01Popularität : 1.176
Seeing Hands
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.07.03Popularität : 1.181
Water Trix
In this Pete Smith Specialty, cameraman Charles T. Trego films water skiing champion Preston Petersen, as he and two unnamed female skiers perform...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.11.05Popularität : 3.017
Aeronutics
This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.04.26Popularität : 0.393
I Love My Wife BUT!
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.04.05Popularität : 1.336
A Wife's Life
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
Veröffentlichung : 1950.09.01Popularität : 1.64
I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.02.07Popularität : 1.9
Cash Stashers
This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.08.29Popularität : 1.03
Camera Sleuth
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.04.28Popularität : 1.823
Just What I Needed
Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.
Veröffentlichung : 1955.04.15Popularität : 0.447
Sports Oddities
A Pete Smith Specialty showcasing athletic stunts.
Veröffentlichung : 1949.12.31Popularität : 0.728
Snow Birds
This Pete Smith Sports Champion short visits Southern California where it quickly moves from orange orchards to the mountain snow playground at Big...
Veröffentlichung : 1932.08.20Popularität : 1.873
The Man Around the House
A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short.
Veröffentlichung : 1955.01.01Popularität : 0.936
Wrong Way Butch
This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.09.02Popularität : 2.066
You Can't Win
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.05.29Popularität : 2.325
Do Someone a Favor!
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.04.10Popularität : 1.149
Donkey Baseball
This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.
Veröffentlichung : 1935.03.02Popularität : 1.578
Acro-Batty
A humorous look at various circus and other acrobatic feats. One of the "Pete Smith Specialties" produced and narrated by "A Smith named Pete."
Veröffentlichung : 1942.03.28Popularität : 1.186
Hollywood Scout
This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.04.14Popularität : 1.204
The Great Morgan
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.01.01Popularität : 3.779
Just Suppose
An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.07.17Popularität : 2.255
How to Hold Your Husband - BACK
In this Pete Smith Specialty comedic short, we see various ways a wife may unintentionally hold her husband back.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.12.30Popularität : 0.787
Gettin' Glamour
This Pete Smith Specialty comedic short details the troubles the average woman faces with maintaining beauty and fitness.
Veröffentlichung : 1946.02.02Popularität : 0.704
Reducing
Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.03.22Popularität : 2.237
Athletiquiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 12
The audience is asked questions about sports facts and records involving tennis, wrestling, swimming, golf, and cycling.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.01.11Popularität : 0.939
Water Sports
This short film showcases water sports activities such as sailboat racing and surfboard riding, including Christian Peterson doing a human surfboard...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.10.26Popularität : 0.853
Fine Feathers
A look at colorful (and mostly imported) birds, ranging in size from hummingbirds to storks.
Veröffentlichung : 1933.11.18Popularität : 0.55
The Camera Caught It
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1954.10.09Popularität : 0.416
Animals in Action
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.05.21Popularität : 1.128
Rough Riding
This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming
Veröffentlichung : 1954.12.11Popularität : 0.795
Have You Ever Wondered?
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.12.13Popularität : 1.236
Bargain Madness
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, women battle for bargains in a department store.
Veröffentlichung : 1951.07.04Popularität : 1.571
Dogs 'n Ducks
A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.06.27Popularität : 0.853
Victory Quiz
A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.05.09Popularität : 0.417
Calling All Pa's
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.10.24Popularität : 1.169
Harnessed Rhythm
This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.06.06Popularität : 1.486
Lions on the Loose
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, two lion cubs escape from the zoo and go on an adventure.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.05.24Popularität : 0.701
Crashing the Movies
This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.01.28Popularität : 0.627
Ice Aces
This Pete Smith Specialty short provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Ice Capades practices with ice skating favorites of the time.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.11.06Popularität : 0.425
Musiquiz
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.
Veröffentlichung : 1952.02.16Popularität : 0.919
Fish Tales
In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.03.13Popularität : 0.623
Microscopic Mysteries
This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.
Veröffentlichung : 1932.10.18Popularität : 0.647
Heroes at Leisure
This short film focuses on a group of lifeguards from a Southern California beach during the off season.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.02.02Popularität : 0.951
Flicker Memories
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, clips from several unidentified silent films are woven into a story, with humorous commentary by Smith.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.10.04Popularität : 0.407
Audioscopiks
After the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.12.26Popularität : 2.366
Now You See It
This Pete Smith Specialty short demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.03.20Popularität : 2.136
Quicker'n a Wink
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.10.12Popularität : 2.045
Army Champions
This Pete Smith Specialty short focuses on the young men who have signed up for the U.S. Army. The film uses the analogy of the speed, accuracy, and...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.10.11Popularität : 1.693
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
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...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.12.07Popularität : 4.971
Marines in the Making
This short film shows U.S. Marines in training at a number of unidentified bases, with a focus on hand-to-hand combat.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.12.26Popularität : 1.15
Safety Sleuth
Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.
Veröffentlichung : 1944.11.25Popularität : 2.156
Groovie Movie
A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various...
Veröffentlichung : 1944.02.19Popularität : 1.268
The Domineering Male
This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?
Veröffentlichung : 1940.03.30Popularität : 0.536
Color Scales
This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.
Veröffentlichung : 1932.04.23Popularität : 1.161
Treasures from Trash
This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.
Veröffentlichung : 1946.06.08Popularität : 0.88
Trained Hoofs
This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.
Veröffentlichung : 1935.10.12Popularität : 0.305
Football Thrills of 1940
Pete Smith narrates some of the most spectacular college football plays from the 1940 season.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.09.20Popularität : 0.48
Football Thrills of 1944
Pete Smith would make a "Football Thrills of...." each year as part of his Pete Smith Specials. 1944 was in the midst of WW II and most of the...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.09.08Popularität : 0.616
Manhattan Melodrama
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.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.05.04Popularität : 5.523
Seventh Column
This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.
Veröffentlichung : 1943.07.31Popularität : 0.375
Equestrian Acrobats
This Pete Smith Specialty showcases the Cristiani Family, a circus act. They mount and dismount moving horses and perform acrobatic feats while...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.08.14Popularität : 0.577
Pro Football
This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real...
Veröffentlichung : 1934.09.22Popularität : 1.014
Desert Regatta
In this Sports Champions entry, power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California's Salton Sea.
Veröffentlichung : 1932.09.17Popularität : 1.38
Badminton
Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B....
Veröffentlichung : 1945.12.08Popularität : 0.989
Wild and Woolly
This Sports Champions entry visits a rodeo and highlights the three main events: bronco busting, bull riding, and bull-dogging steers.
Veröffentlichung : 1931.11.07Popularität : 0.563
This Is a Living?
This "Pete Smith Specialty" features narrated clips of acrobats and stunt performers who earn their living in unusual and exciting ways.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.10.10Popularität : 0.867
Water Bugs
This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.08.16Popularität : 0.633
Studio Visit
This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.
Veröffentlichung : 1946.05.11Popularität : 0.711
Sportsman's Memories
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,...
Veröffentlichung : 1944.04.22Popularität : 0.578
Aqua Antics
In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.01.24Popularität : 1.901
Olympic Events
This short film presents several athletes preparing for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Veröffentlichung : 1932.03.05Popularität : 0.512
Cuban Rhythm
In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.06.21Popularität : 0.947
Curious Contests
This Pete Smith Specialty shows newsreel footage events that live up to the title. They include, among others, a diaper derby (the father who puts a...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.11.11Popularität : 0.826
Hot on Ice
How the game of ice hockey is played, demonstrated by the hockey team at Loyola University.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.10.22Popularität : 0.333
Grid Rules
Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.10.15Popularität : 0.893
Penny's Party
Prudence Penny and Gwen Lee give more cooking tips in Technicolor
Veröffentlichung : 1938.04.09Popularität : 1.215
Dexterity
Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.
Veröffentlichung : 1937.01.16Popularität : 1.229
Man's Greatest Friend
An examination of the role played by dogs over the years in scientific research.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.11.19Popularität : 1.084
Anaesthesia
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.07.09Popularität : 0.676
Football Thrills of 1937
A review of the 1937 football season.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.09.10Popularität : 0.405
Penny's Picnic
1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.12.17Popularität : 1.151
Poetry of Nature
Pete Smith takes a humorous look at the wildlife that lives among the California redwoods.
Veröffentlichung : 1939.06.17Popularität : 0.001
Bowling Tricks
A demonstration of trick shots by champion bowler Andy Varipapa.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.01.10Popularität : 0.829
Memory Tricks
A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented
Veröffentlichung : 1941.03.15Popularität : 0.302