Simbad, o Marujo

RKO had to scuttle its plan to present this film as a 1946 Christmas-season attraction when a strike at the Technicolor processing plant delayed the making of prints. The wide-release date would be moved up to January 13, 1947, with the Manhattan opening at the Palace Theatre following on January 22, 1947. Needing a black-and-white movie for its 1946 yuletide schedule, RKO chose a film destined to become a holiday perennial: Frank Capra's A Felicidade Não se Compra (1946).

Wires are visible on the black bird as it circles the ship's mast.

The title appears as if it were being poured, in colored water, by faucets into a reflecting pool.

Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)