The original found footage horror? Nah—it's 1950s insurance fraud with a camera strapped to a car.
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and disprove a fraudulent insurance claim.
Direction
Dave O'Brien makes insurance paperwork feel like a heist film.
Editing
Ruthless cutting—narrator never breathes. Information assault.
Production
That jerry-rigged car camera rig is jankier than your phone mount.
Director
Dave O'Brien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pete Smith narrated over 250 'Specialty' shorts for MGM from 1935-1955, winning an Oscar for one about penicillin.
This is post-war America terrified of 'malingerers' gaming the system—surveillance as patriotic duty.
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