A stylized, semi-abstract cartoon interpretation of Saint Saens 'Danse Macabre'. After Norman McLaren left the British Documentary Film Group and before he joined the National Film Board of Canada, he spent two years (1939-1941) in the United States as an independent filmmaker. It was during this time that he animated this Mary Ellen Bute Film, using the semi-abstract cartoon style he was later to make famous in his own films such as FIDDLE DE DEE and BLINKITY BLANK. Since SPOOK SPORT was produced during the same years that Walt Disney was producing FANTASIA, it is interesting to compare the two approaches to the visual interpretation of classical music...particularly with Disney's surrealistic interpretation of 'Night on Bald Mountain', a composition of comparable mood and subject matter. (Also available on 35mm.) [Source: Creative Film Society Catalog, 1975]