Credits: Director, Jean Angelo; original music, Jose Maria P_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

Appl. author: Carmen Amaya.

SPELLBOUND. Released by United Artists, c1945. Presented by David O.

Selznick. 12 reels, sd. A Selznick International picture. Suggested

by Francis Beeding's novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes."

Credits: Producer, David O. Selznick; director, Alfred Hitchcock;

screenplay, Ben Hecht; adaptation, Angus MacPhail; music, Miklos

Rozsa; photographer, George Barnes; film editor, Hal C. Kern.

SPELLING IS EASY. Coronet, c1947. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Credits: Educational author, Viola Theman.

MP2015.

SPENT FULLERS EARTH FOUND EFFECTIVE IN CONTROL OF INCENDIARY BOMBS.

Appl. author: Guilford C. Jones.

SPICY AND SPANISH. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1944, 1 reel, sd.

THE SPIDER. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1945. 5,160 ft., sd.

Based on a play by Charles Fulton Oursler and Lowell Brentano.

Credits: Director, Robert Webb; screenplay, Jo Eisinger, Scott

Darling; music director, Emil Newman.

THE SPIDER RETURNS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 2 reels each (no.

1, 3 reels). Based upon "The Spider" magazine stories. © Columbia

Pictures Corp.

Credits: Producer, Larry Darmour; director, James W. Horne; story,

Morgan B. Cox, Lawrence E. Taylor, John Cutting, Harry Fraser;

screenplay, Jesse A. Duffy, George Plympton; music, Lee Zahler; film

editors, Dwight Caldwell, Earl Turner.

1. The Stolen Plans. © 5May41; LP10962.

2. The Fatal Time-Bomb. © 13May41; LP10963.

3. The Secret Meeting. © 20May41; LP10964.

4. The Smoke Dream. © 26May41; LP10965.

5. The Gargoyle's Trail. © 2Jun41; LP10966.

6. The X-Ray Eye. © 9Jun41; LP10967.

7. The Radio Boomerang. © 16Jun41; LP10968.

8. The Mysterious Message. © 21Jun41; LP10969.

9. The Cup of Doom. © 27Jun41; LP10970.

10. The X-Ray Belt. © 7Jul41; LP10971.

11. Lips Sealed by Murder. © 9Jul41; LP10972.

12. A Money Bomb. ©21Jul41; LP10973.

13. Almost a Confession. © 24Jul41; LP10974.

14. Suspicious Telegrams. © 26Jul41; LP10975.

15. The Payoff. © 3Aug41; LP10976.

THE SPIDER WOMAN. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1943. 7 reels, sd.

Based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Credits: Associate producer and director, Roy William Neill;

screenplay, Bertram Millhauser; film editor, James Gibbons.

THE SPIDER WOMAN STRIKES BACK. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 7

reels, sd., 35mm.

Credits: Director, Arthur Lubin; original screenplay, Eric Taylor.

SPILLS AND CHILLS. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(Sports News Review) Warner Bros.

Summary: Scenes of daredevils of yesterday, including acrobats,

motorcyclists, speeding car drivers, and many other stunt men.

Credits: Directed and written by Robert Youngson; narrator, Dan

Donaldson; editor, Albert Helmes.

SPILLS FOR THRILLS. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1940. 19 min., sd.

(Broadway Brevities)

Credits: Producer and director, DeLeon Anthony; narrator, Knox

Manning.

SPIN THE BOTTLE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1941.

1 reel, sd.

SPINACH FER BRITAIN. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1943. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, Carl Meyer; animation, Jim

Tyer, Abner Kneitel.

SPINACH PACKIN' POPEYE. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1944. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, Bill Turner.

SPINACH VS. HAMBURGERS. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 1 reel, sd.,

color. 35mm. (Popeye the Sailor Cartoon)

Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, Bill Turner, Larz Bourke;

animation, Al Eugster, Tom Moore.

SPINNING A YARN. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1944. 1 reel, sd.

(Person-Oddity, no. 135)

Credits: Produced, directed and written by Thomas Mead, Joseph

O'Brien.

SPINNING ROPES. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1946. 1

reel, sd.

SPINNING STEPS. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1945. 1

reel, sd.

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1945. 83 min., sd.

Based on the novel "Some Must Watch" by Ethel Lina White.

Credits: Producer, Dore Schary; director, Robert Siodmak;

screenplay, Mel Dinelli; music, Roy Webb; music director, C.

Bakaleinikoff; editors, Harry Marker, Harry Gerstad.

THE SPIRIT OF ANNAPOLIS. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1942. 20 min.,

sd. (Broadway Brevity)

Credits: Director, Jean Negulesco.

SPIRIT OF BOOGIE WOOGIE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1942. 1 reel, sd.

SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY. SEE Variety Views, no. 114.

THE SPIRIT OF 1941. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 894 ft., sd. (The

Washington Parade)

Credits: Narrative, William M. Nelson; narrator, Basil Ruysdael;

photographer, Charles Harten; editor, Harry Foster.

THE SPIRIT OF STANFORD. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1942. 8 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sam White; director, Charles Barton; story,

William Brent, Nick Lukats; screenplay, Howard. J. Green, William

Brent, Nick Lukats; music director, M. W. Stoloff; film editor,

James Sweeney.

THE SPIRIT OF WEST POINT. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1942. 20 min.,

sd. (Broadway Brevity)

Credits: Director, Jean Negulesco.

THE SPIRIT OF WEST POINT. Bro-Rog Pictures Corp., c1947. 77 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. Based on an original story by Margaret Mary Howard.

Credits: Director, Ralph Murphy; written for the screen and narrated

by Tom Reed.

Cast: Felix "Doc" Blanchard, Glenn Davis.

SPIRITUAL REARMAMENT. Willard Pictures, c1941. Presented by National

Bible Press. 1 reel, sd.

Appl. author: Robert T. Furman, Jr.

THE SPIRITUALIST. Eagle Lion Films, Inc., c1948. 78 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Summary: A young woman is victimized by a fraudulent medium who

claims he can communicate with the spirit of her supposedly dead

husband. The medium, when he sees the girl led into danger, repents

his deception and exposes a criminal plot against the girl.

Credits: Producer, Ben Stoloff; director, Bernard Vorhaus; original

story, Crane Wilbur; screenplay, Muriel Roy Bolton, Ian McLellan

Hunter; music director, Irving Friedman; music score, Alexander

Laszlo; film editor, Norman Colbert.

Cast: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson,

Donald Curtis.

SPITFIRE. Released through RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1943. Presented

by Samuel Goldwyn. 90 min., sd. A Leslie Howard production.

Credits: Director, Leslie Howard; original story, Henry C. James,

Kay Strueby; screenplay, Miles Malleson, Anatole De Grunwald; music,

William Walton; music direction, Muir Mathieson; film editor,

Douglas Myers.

Appl. authors: Misbourne Pictures, Ltd. and British Aviation

Pictures, Ltd.

SPLASH HAPPY. Soundies Films, Inc., c1946. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm. A

Filmcraft production.

Credits: Producer and director, William Forest Crouch.

SPLITS, SPARES AND STRIKES. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 913 ft.,

sd. (World of Sports, no. 68)

Credits: Narrator, Dan Seymour; photographer, Charles Harten;

editor, Harry Foster.

THE SPOILERS. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1942. 9 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Frank Lloyd; director, Ray Enright; screenplay,

Lawrence Hazard, Tom Reed; photography, Milton Krasner; film editor,

Clarence Kolster.

SPOILERS OF THE NORTH. Republic Productions, Inc., c1947. 66 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Associate producer, Donald H. Brown; director, Richard

Sale; original screenplay, Milton M. Raison; music director, Mort

Glickman; film editor, William Thompson.

Cast: Paul Kelly, Adrian Booth, Evelyn Ankers, James A. Millican.

SPOILS OF CONQUEST. SEE The March of Time, v. 6, no. 12.

SPOOK BUSTERS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1946. 7 reels, sd., 35mm.

Credits: Producer, Jan Grippo; director, William Beaudine; original

screenplay, Edmond Seward, Tim Ryan; music director, Edward J. Kay;

photographer, Harry Neumann; editor, William Austin.

SPOOK LOUDER. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1943. 1,456 ft., sd.

Credits: Director, Del Lord; story and screenplay, Clyde Bruckman.

THE SPOOK SPEAKS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 2 reels.

Credits: Director, Jules White; story and screenplay, Ewart Adamson,

Clyde Bruckman.

THE SPOOK SPEAKS. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1947. 19 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Credits: Producer, George Bilson; director, Hal Yates; screenplay,

Julian Woodward; film editor, Edward W. Williams.

Cast: Leon Errol, Dorothy Granger.

SPOOK TO ME. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1945. 2 reels.

Credits: Direction and screenplay, Harry Edwards; story, Edward

Bernds.

SPOOK TOWN. P.R.C. Pictures, Inc., c1944. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Arthur Alexander; direction and original

screenplay, Elmer Clifton; music director, Lee Zahler; photographer,

Robert C. Cline; film editor, Charles Henkel, Jr.

SPOOKS RUN WILD. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1941. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sam Katzman; director, Phil Rosen; original story

and screenplay, Carl Foreman, Charles R. Marion; photography, Marcel

Le Picard; film editor, Robert Golden.

SPOONHANDLE. SEE Deep Waters.

SPORT OF KINGS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 912 ft., sd. (The

World of Sports, no. 60)

Credits: Narrative by Stanley Frank; narrator, Dan Seymour;

photography, Charles Harten; editor, Harry Foster.

SPORT OF KINGS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1947. 68 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. Based on a story by Gordon Grand.

Credits: Producer, William Bloom; director, Robert Gordon;

screenplay, Edward Huebsch; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff;

film editor, Aaron Stell.

Cast: Paul Campbell, Gloria Henry, Harry Davenport.

SPORT OF MILLIONS. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd., color, 35mm.

(Sports Parade) Warner Bros.

Summary: A tour of race tracks throughout the world.

Credits: Narrator, Knox Manning.

SPORTING BLOOD. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

9 reels, sd., b&w. Based on an original story by Grace Norton.

Credits: Producer, Albert E. Levoy; director, S. Sylvan Simon;

screenplay, Lawrence Hazard, Albert Mannheimer, Dorothy Yost; music

score, Franz Waxman; film editor, Frank Sullivan.

A SPORTING CHANCE. c1945. Presented by Republic Pictures. 6 reels, sd.

Based on an original story by Paul Gangelin.

Credits: Associate producer, Rudolph E. Abel; director, George

Blair; screenplay, Dane Lussier; music director, Richard Cherwin;

photographer, Marcel LePicard; film editor, Ralph Dixon.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

THE SPORTING EVERGLADES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 1 reel, sd.

(Grantland Rice Sportlight)

Credits: Narrator, Ted Husing.

SPORTING SPHERES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. (Grantland Rice Sportlight)

Summary: Presents ten sports and shows the difference between the

balls used in each game.

Credits: Narrator, Ted Husing; photographer, Russell T. Ervin.

SPORTS A LA MODE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1942.

1 reel, sd.

SPORTS COVERAGE. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1948. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(Sportscope, no. 6)

Summary: Different methods of reporting sports events as exemplified

by newspaper columnist, Joe Williams, AP photographer Matty

Zimmerman, television reporter, Clem McCarthy, and broadcaster, Red

Barber.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director, Joseph Walsh; script,

Burton Benjamin; narrator, Andre Baruch; music, Nathaniel Shilkret.

SPORTS DOWN UNDER. Vitaphone Corp., c1948. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(Sports Parade) Warner Bros.

Summary: Sports of Australia, including motorcycle racing, cricket

matches, bowling, golf, tennis, horse racing, and swimming.

Credits: Director, Arthur Collins; written by Charles L. Tedford;

narrator, Truman Bradley.

SPORTS GO TO WAR. The Vitaphone Corp., c1945. 10 min., sd., color.

(The Sports Parade)

Credits: Producers, A. Pam Blumenthal, Andre de La Varre; director,

Van Campen Heilner; narrator, Knox Manning. Technicolor.

SPORTS GOLDEN AGE. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1948. 17 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(This Is America, no. 10)

Summary: The film shows the wide variety of sports which make the

United States the most sportsminded nation in the world, and such

champions as Babe Ruth, Johnny Lujack, Ben Hogan, Jack Dempsey, and

Helen Wills in action.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; script, Burton Benjamin; narrator,

Dwight Weist; editor, David Cooper.

SPORTS I. Q. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1942. 1 reel, sd. (Grantland

Rice Sportlight)

Credits: Narrator, Ted Husing.

SPORTS IN THE ROCKIES. SEE Variety Views, no. 103.

SPORTS NEW AND OLD. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd., color, 35mm.

(Sports Parade) Warner Bros.

Summary: Highlights of modern sports as performed by fun-loving

Egyptians. Includes tennis, volley ball, soccer, gymnastics,

sailing, swimming, and diving.

Credits: Written by Charles L. Tedford; narrator, Knox Manning;

editor, Everett Dodd.

SPORTS QUIZ. Loew's Inc., c1944. 971 ft., sd., b&w. (A Pete Smith

Specialty) (What's Your I. Q? no. 8)

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; film editor, John

Durant.

SPORTS STICKLERS. Loew's Inc., c1945. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 949 ft., sd., b&w. (A Pete Smith Specialty)

(What's Your I. Q? no. 10)

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; screenplay, Joe Ansen;

film editor, J. J. Durant, Jr.

SPORTS TOP PERFORMERS. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1949. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(Sportscope, no. 8)

Summary: Top performers in sports gather at the Hotel Astor in New

York for the Sports Magazine's awards.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director, Joseph Walsh; narrator,

Andre Baruch; editor, Harold Oteri.

SPORTSMAN'S MEMORIES. Loew's Inc., c1944. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 877 ft., sd., b&w, 35mm. (A Pete Smith

Specialty)

Credits: Narrator, Pete Smith.

SPORTSMAN'S PLAYGROUND. Vitaphone Corp., c1947. 10 min., sd., color,

35mm. (The Sports Parade). Warner Bros.

Credits: Narration, Charles L. Tedford; narrator, Truman Bradley.

SPORTSMEN OF THE FAR EAST. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd.,

color, 35mm. (The Sports Parade) Warner Bros.

Summary: Bombay, India, is presented as the playground of the Far

East. The western influence is seen in such sports as swimming,

sailing, diving, field hockey, cricket, polo, and horse racing, and

the traditional pastimes of snake charming, sword twirling, and pole

climbing are still popular.

Credits: Written by Charles L. Tedford; narrator, Knox Manning.

SPOT TAG. Motion Picture Service Co., c1949. 3 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: An animated cartoon featuring Spotty, who jumps about on

the screen while the audience tries to catch him with automobile

spot-lights. Designed for use in drive-in theatres.

SPOTLIGHT ON INDO-CHINA. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1940. 1

reel, sd. (Lowell Thomas' Magic Carpet of Movietone)

Credits: Producer, Truman Talley; continuity, Russ Sheilds;

narration, Lowell Thomas; music score, L. de Francesco; editor, Lew

Lehr.

SPOTLIGHT ON MEXICO. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1949. 16 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(This Is America, no. 2)

Summary: A pictorial excursion into Mexico. Shows the Pan American

Highway, the Pyramids, a bullfight, Mexican arts and crafts, the

Palace of Fine Arts, the art school at San Miguel Allende, and the

industrialized city of Monterrey.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director and photographer, Larry

O'Reilly; written by Jerome Brondfield; narrator, Dwight Weist;

music, Paul Sawtell; editor, David Cooper.

SPOTLIGHT SCANDALS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1943. 8 reels, sd.

Credits: Producers, Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz; director, William

Beaudine; screenplay, William X. Crowley, Beryl Sachs; music

director, Edward Kay; photography, Mack Stengler; film editor, Carl

Pierson.

SPOTLIGHT SERENADE. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1948. 8 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. (Sing and Be Happy Series)

Summary: Lillian Russell, Eddie Leonard, Anna Held, and George M.

Cohan are shown in cartoon drawings while the songs with which they

are associated are sung.

Credits: Director, Benjamin R. Parker; screenplay, Courtney Leigh;

editor, Leonard Anderson.

SPOTS BEFORE YOUR EYES. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 904 ft., sd. (A Pete Smith Specialty)

Credits: Director, John Hines; screenplay, E. Maurice Adler; film

editor, Philip Anderson.

SPREAD A BIT OF SUNSHINE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,

Inc., c1944. 1 reel, sd.

SPREADIN' THE JAM. Loew's Inc., c1945. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 889 ft., sd., b&w.

Credits: Producer, Sam Baerwitz; director, Charles Walters; original

story and screenplay, Sid Kuller; music director, L. Friedman;

orchestration, Calvin Jackson, Walter Sheets, Max Terr; film editor,

George Hively.

SPREE FOR ALL. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1946. 1 reel. (A Noveltoon)

Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, Bill Turner, Otto

Messmer.

SPRING COMES TO NIAGARA. Vitaphone Corp., c1949. 10 min., sd., color,

35mm. Warner Bros.

Summary: The great falls of the Niagara River are shown at the

beginning of the spring season.

Credits: Director, Gordon Sparling; narrator, Lamong Tilden; music,

Lucio Agostini.

SPRING ON THE FARM. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1947. 11

min., sd., color, 16mm.

Summary: Two children on a farm observe the developments that take

place in plant and animal life during the months of March, April,

and May. A classroom film for primary and middle grades.

Credits: Collaborator, E. Laurence Palmer.

SPRING PARADE. c1940. Presented by Universal Studios. 10 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Joe Pasternak; director, Henry Koster; original

story, Ernst Marischka; screenplay, Bruce Manning, Felix Jackson;

music, Robert Stolz; music director, Charles Previn; photography,

Joe Valentine; film editor, Bernard Burton.

SPRING SONG. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1949. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm.

(Screen Song)

Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, I. Klein; animation, Myron

Waldman, Larry Liverman.

SPRINGBOARD FOR CHAMPIONS. Produced for Cambridge Tile Manufacturing

Company. 9 min., sd., color, 16mm.

Appl. author: Sprague Mullikin.

SPRINGBOARD TECHNIQUES. Coronet, in collaboration with Michael Peppe,

c1947. 1 reel, sd., color, 16mm.

MP2014.

SPRINGTIME FOR PLUTO. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1944.

1 reel, sd., color. (A Walt Disney Pluto)

Credits: Director, Charles Nichols; story, Nick George, Eric Gurney;

animation, George Nicholas, Norman Tate, Marvin Woodward, Sandy

Strother; music, Oliver Wallace. Technicolor.

SPRINGTIME FOR THOMAS. Loew's Inc., c1946. 707 ft., sd., color. (An

MGM Tom and Jerry Cartoon)

Credits: Directors, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera; animation, Ed

Barge. Michael Lah, Kenneth Muse; music, Scott Bradley. Technicolor.

SPRINGTIME IN TEXAS. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1945. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, William Strohbach; director, Oliver

Drake; original screenplay, Frances Kavanaugh; music director, Frank

Sanucci; photographer, William A. Sickner; film editor, William

Austin.

SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKAGE. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, Dan Gordan; animation,

Myron Waldman, Dick Williams.

SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1942.

8,171 ft., sd. Based on a story by Philip Wylie.

Credits: Director, Irving Cummings; screenplay, Walter Bullock, Ken

Englund; adaptation, Jacques Thery; music director, Alfred Newman.

SPRINGTIME IN THE SIERRAS. Republic Productions. Inc., c1947. 75 min.,

sd., color, 35mm.

Credits: Associate producer, Edward J. White; director, William

Witney; original screenplay, A. Sloan Nibley; music director, Morton

Scott; film editor, Tony Martinelli.

Cast: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine, Bob Nolan.

SPRONGE EN PAALSPRING. SEE Jumps and Pole Vault.

SPY SHIP. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1942. 62 min., sd. A Warner

Bros.-First National picture. From a novel by George Dyer.

Credits: Director, B. Reaves Eason; screenplay, Robert E. Kent; film

editor, James Gibbon.

SPY SMASHER. c1942. Presented by Republic Pictures. 2 reels each (no.

1, 3 reels), sd. Suggested by the character appearing in "Whiz

LP11235; no. 7–12, LP11409.

Credits: Director, Jean Angelo; original music, Jose Maria Palomo.