Silent Studio Directory - 273 - dramas; distributed through Associated Photoplays. Spencer’s Pictures - AUSTRALIA - 1905-1914 - distribution company formed by Canadian businessman Charles C. Spencer who, in 1908, moved to production and established a studio to produce documentary shorts and newsreels; expanded to feature films in 1910; in 1911, incorporated as Spencer’s Pictures Ltd. and built a new studio at Rushcutter’s Bay in Sydney; by 1912, largest film importer in Australia but, while he was out of the country, his board elected to merge with West’s Pictures and Amalgamated Pictures to become General Film Co. of Australasia; Spencer retired in 1918 and went back to Canada. Sport Film Co. - UK - 1913-1914 - distribution company for Splendor Films with offices located at 3-7 Southampton St., Winchester. Spotlight Comedies - US - 1921 - trade name for one reel comedies released by Arrow Film Corp. Standard Cinema Corp. - US - 1923-1924 - distribution company for shorts; located at 831 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; formed by L. D. Darmour as president; some distribution through Selznick Distribution Corp. Standard Feature Film Co. - UK - 1913-1916 - distribution company formed by merger of Standard Feature Film and Art Cinema Plays with Rhonda Gay, Emily O’Hara, William Robert Paterson, Beatrice Alice Coomber Renton, and Percy Renton; offices located at 79 Shaftesbury Ave., Winchester; in September 1914, moved to 55 High St., New Oxford and then in October 1916 to Film House, Gerrard St. Standard Film Attractions - US - 1924 - distribution company located at 1322 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Pennyslvania. Standard Photo-Play Distributors - US - 1915 - [see Standard Pictures, Inc.] Standard Pictures, Inc. - US - 1915 - distribution company located at the Times Building, New York, and formed by Al Lichtman, A. Warner and H. M. Warner to replace United Film Service, which went bankrupt; Standard picked up distribution for Albuquerque, Crystal, Erbograph, Grandin, Ideal, Mittenthal, Pike’s Peak, Smallwood, and St. Louis film companies et al.