• A Smith called Pete, in cooperation with the US Department of Labor, offers the audience a cinematic essay on how to perform a job safely, by showing us Dave O'Brien not doing so. In an industrial plant, yet!

    Dave O'Brien co-writes, directs and stars in this short, which shows you what can go wrong if you don't pay attention to the safety rules around heavy machinery, with Pete Smith narrating right along, in his snarky, contemptuous style in this Oscar-nominated short.

    Smith narrated and produced a couple of hundred short subjects for MGM, and O'Brien had a hand as writer, director and performer in about 80 of them. Most of them are quite funny. This is among the funniest.