Pete Smith

This short film focuses on a day in the life of a Hollywood talent scout assigned to cast animals.

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He’s still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy’s Bar, unaware, as ...

Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family ...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together ...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a ...

A car crash blazes a destructive trail trough the lives of three women – an awkward adolescent, a malevolent femme fatale, and a ...

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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 ...

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 ‘cine-ramic’ roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film.

Award winning filmmaker Richard Martini examines the work of Michael Newton who pioneered deep hypnosis over 30 years; thousands of his patients ...

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

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more ...