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A Smith called Pete talks about his deskful of souvenirs and how about Dave O'Brien puts on a moustache and comes in and destroys them in this typically amusing short. He then talks about his memories about fishing from the Goodyear blimp and other tall tales, while other people do the hard work of capturing wild bears and Smith takes the credit.

It looks like a compendium of bits from other Pete Smith specialties, repurposed like retreading tires because don't you know there's a war on? Meanwhile O'Brien destroys fishing reels and lassos a bathing beauty or two. He leaves the Oscars that Smith won for the series alone.

Sportsman's Memories (1944)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Mixed bag from Pete Smith shows a janitor going into his room where we see various "sportman trophies" from Smith's various hunts. We then see footage from various strange hunts including shooting coyotes from a plane, capturing bears with ropes and fishing for marlin from a blimp. There's no doubt that we get some pretty amazing hunting footage here but the downside is that there are some pretty brutal things captured that really aren't that entertaining to watch. The stuff with the bear has a group of dog chasing it up a tree where two men then lasso the neck and legs before letting it down on the ground where they tie it up. In this footage the bear starts going crazy as one would expect and ends up getting ahold of one of the dogs, which screams out in pain. In the coyote segment we see a couple get shot and killed as does a large stingray. The footage is rather amazing but then again, it's hard to be entertained off of these things getting killed on screen.