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12

7.1

/410/

77

/4/

69

/15/

3.4

/218/

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.

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45

9

4.6

/566/

56

/9/

49

/17/

2.9

/268/

18

/13/

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 average person carries.

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6.4

/98/

70

/1/

60

/2/

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 citrus groves of Southern California. First, the scientists predict the storm's course, giving several days' warning to farmers and growers. The growers, typified by the Morgan family, prepare the oil-burning pots throughout their grove. Then, as the temperature dips below freezing, they light the pots. The cold snap continues as oil-supplies dwindle; the smoky air slows traffic, including trucks bringing more oil. The scientists strive to predict how long freezing temperatures will last: can the Morgans hold out?

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63

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7.1

/122/

60

/1/

60

/5/

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various other couples. We start with steps imported from other dances, like the waltz, then sped up. Next Walsh and his partner show some basic steps, but the movements are too swift for the narrator to describe them or the viewer to learn how to do them. By the end, various couples (all but a pair of briefly-seen children are white), including some comic ones, give a high-speed demonstration as the music rocks and swings. These are hep cats. Pete Smith's narration is full of slang.

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6.1

/63/

60

/1/

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 as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.

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5.8

/70/

60

/1/

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

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6.1

/78/

40

/2/

50

/1/

In this short film, champion fisherman Ernie St. Claire tries to catch a large salmon in Oregon's Rogue River.

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5.6

/10/

A Pete Smith Specialty.

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4.8

/8/

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

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5.7

/14/

The second "Pete Smith Special" dealing with Fala, the pet dog of the late-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died long before the release of this short. Smith provides the commenary and narration from Fala's "diary" as the dog visits his favorite places of interest at Hyde Park, the Roosevelt family's country estate in upper New York state. Any appearance of FDR, if there is one, in this January 19, 1946-release short is Archive Footage.

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5.9

/24/

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

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4.4

/16/

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 tire of the repetitive routine, a superior officer tells them the story of another Northwest Mounted Policeman. The story shows the chase and capture of a killer by the policeman, with the respect he commanded causing an Indian tribe to return his dead body back to the post and also turning over the killer he tracked down, only to lose his life to disease while helping the tribe fight the same malady that killed him.

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6.3

/95/

50

/1/

40

/1/

This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness racehorse, from birth through age three.

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6.0

/97/

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

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6.0

/25/

10

/1/

10

/1/

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

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5.8

/119/

30

/2/

60

/1/

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.

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6.4

/51/

This short film focuses on how racehorses are trained.

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5.2

/9/

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

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4.8

/10/

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

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5.5

/18/

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

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6.3

/21/

80

/2/

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 shots in the earlier movie and Ned Day, who demonstrates proper form and technique.

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5.2

/122/

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 like. Next, the "Wotaphony Newsreel" shows clips of early experimental aircraft failing to fly. The "Added Attraction" is a clip of a bear jumping into a large fish tank and trying to catch the fish. Finally, the "Super Stupid Pictures" feature is a narrated silent film telling the life story of an ill-fated woman who was left on a doorstep as an infant, was taken advantage of by men for most of her life, and then came to a sad end after she had turned the tables on them.

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36

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6.3

/110/

10

/1/

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a pane of glass, a car being driven up a ramp and crashing on top of other cars, a human loop-the-loop, and a man who has a cannonball shot at his abdomen at close range.

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5.9

/36/

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 size measuring terms and protocols, race track gambling lingo, harness racing lingo and training techniques, Lipizzan stallions, and non-horse terminology using horse words. In-between the questions, other horse facts are presented and shown, including hapless novice equestrian Horace trying to saddle, mount and ride a horse.

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7.0

/66/

80

/1/

Despite the school just having won an important basketball game, its students are more interested in one of its teachers, namely Charles C. Peterson, who teaches them in the fine art of playing billiards.

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5.3

/37/

10

/1/

A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.

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6.7

/30/

An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.

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6.5

/70/

10

/1/

50

/1/

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

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6.3

/94/

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

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6.2

/65/

10

/1/

This rare Technicolor entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series shows various events at a rodeo in Casper, Wyoming

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5.0

/68/

10

/1/

20

/1/

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony of enduring the dieting and weight-losing programs and exercises is compounded by the usual food-and-sweets temptations.

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6.2

/67/

40

/2/

A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short.

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6.4

/103/

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.

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64

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6.0

/117/

70

/3/

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.

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56

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5.5

/115/

57

/3/

The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas is parodied as being the Harvard/Yale regatta). The second part parodies silent movies with a film called "Minnie the Pretzel Twister" starring 'Cynthia Goosefeather.'

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6.1

/75/

10

/1/

60

/1/

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 upon whom objects fell) when he played hapless characters throughout the series. Under the pseudonym "David Barclay", O'Brien also directed many of the Specialties. Clips from previous films highlight O'Brien's work.

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6.4

/83/

25

/2/

60

/1/

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.

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52

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5.7

/109/

40

/3/

60

/2/

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 indoor radiators make that pounding noise? Why do mammals yawn?

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5.9

/35/

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

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5.3

/34/

This Pete Smith Specialty is a humorous look at a student's first flying lesson, in a propeller-driven biplane.

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6.3

/103/

100

/1/

50

/1/

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

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6.6

/58/

10

/1/

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 include clips of the effects of heavy rain, of early attempts to fly, of an auto race with a spectacular series of crashes, and, last, of the destruction of a suspension bridge newly-built near Tacoma, buffeted and then ruptured by wind. None of these events were staged, and the camera caught them.

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5.8

/140/

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

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6.2

/97/

60

/1/

Choreographer Dave Gould and his students demonstrate various tap dancing steps. Also featured are an adagio and Russian sword dancers.

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60

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6.1

/111/

60

/1/

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.

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6.1

/66/

40

/1/

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

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6.3

/49/

80

/1/

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 for their plans to get married. His budget, alas, does not include nor anticipate the plans of Sally and her parents. This short was reissued in June of 1950 to be shown as a trailer with 1950's "Father of the Bride" and some sources think this short was made for that express purpose and date it as a 1950 film.

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6.0

/56/

10

/1/

60

/1/

In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.

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