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Curious Contests

  • 1950
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  • 9m
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6.0/10
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Curious Contests (1950)
ComedyDocumentaryShort

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 diaper on his child fastest wins), a fire... Read allThis 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 diaper on his child fastest wins), a fireman's ball (two teams of fire fighters use high-pressure water hoses to move a large ball ... Read allThis 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 diaper on his child fastest wins), a fireman's ball (two teams of fire fighters use high-pressure water hoses to move a large ball to score goals), and a basket race (men run a footrace while balancing a "tower" of ten ba... Read all

  • Writers
    • Joe Ansen
    • Don Brodie
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    • Pete Smith
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    6.0/10
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    • Writers
      • Joe Ansen
      • Don Brodie
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    3planktonrules

    What am I missing?!

    I've seen quite a few Pete Smith shorts and I really cannot understand the appeal of them. MGM made a bunch and the reviews on IMDb are mostly positive but I keep wondering why. The films, to me, just aren't very good and not in the least bit entertaining. What am I missing?! All I know is that I haven't seen one yet that entertained me or made me laugh.

    "Curious Contests" consists of lots of old clips from various odd sports. While these clips play, Smith makes a variety of comments that HE thinks are clever...unfortunately, they aren't. Additionally, for added fun(?), they sometimes run the clips forward and backward...not clever and something only little kids might enjoy. Overall, a tired set of old clips complete with annoying narration.
    5Doylenf

    Pete Smith specialty is a collection of oddities...

    This should have been "oddities on parade". It begins with the marathon dances where couples began to look like zombies after dancing non-stop to set some sort of record; a diaper derby with hubbies trying to tie the knot; baby races where the crawling kids are egged on by anxious parents; Suomi wrestlers doing their thing and where they "eat like a horse and think like an elephant"; basket carrying contest on heads in Great Britain; a mudfest; bullfighting stunts; log chopping in Spain; water jousting with a fall into the water; old-fashioned bike race; and finally, men racing to see who could put the cat out the fastest and return to bed after running several yards.

    It's briskly edited so that all of the acts blend together in quick succession, but really nothing more than an average viewing experience.

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      • November 11, 1950 (United States)
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