| 1926-1927 | 1927-1928 | 1928-1929 | 1929-1930 | 1930-1931 | 1931-1932 | 1932-1933 | 1933-1934 | 1934-1935 | 1935-1936 | 1936-1937 | 1937-1938 | 1938-1939 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 26 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 5 Football Sense Sports Series (1rl) | 26 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 26 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 6 Bill Cunningham Sports Reviews (1rl) | 6 Gleason's Sport Featurettes (2rl) | 13 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 13 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 13 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 13 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 13 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 6 Ed Thorgersen's Sports Preview (1rl) |
| 6 Screen Star Sports (1rl) | 26 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 6 Johnny Farrell Golf Series (1rl) | 6 Football for the Fan (1rl) | 6 How to Break Ninety, with Bobby Jones (1rl) | 6 My Bridge Experience (2rl) | 1 MGM Sports Parade (1rl) | 11 Pete Smith's Sports Parade (1rl) | 13 New World of Sports (1rl) | 13 New Sport Thrills (1rl) | 13 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | ||
| 4 Great Moments in Football (2rl) | 6 Knute Rockne Football Series (1rl) | 6 Football Thrills (1rl) | 11 Sport Champions (1rl) | 10 World of Sports (1rl) | 13 World of Sports (1rl) | 7 Sports with Bill Corum (1rl) | 13 Sports with Bill Corum (1rl) | 9 Pathé Sportscopes (1rl) | 11 Pathé Sportscopes (1rl) | |||
| 20 Sports Reels (2rl) | 13 Grantland Rice Sportlights (1rl) | 13 Sport Thrills (1rl) | 16 World of Sports (1rl) | 14 Special Sport Thrills (1rl) | ||||||||
| 2 sports shorts (1rl) | 12 How I Play Golf, with Bobby Jones (1rl) | 14 Sports Eye Views (1rl) | ||||||||||
| 12 Sport Champions (1rl) | 8 World of Sports (1rl) | |||||||||||
| 13 Ted Husing Sports Slants (1rl) |
The category of sports shorts encompassed two kinds of film: the sports instruction films briefly popular in the early 1930s (e.g., Warner’s How I Play Golf, with Bobby Jones, RKO’s My Bridge Experience) and the far more numerous sporting interest films (e.g., Paramount’s Grantland Rice Sportlights, Pathé’s Sports with Bill Corum, Columbia’s World of Sports, etc.). Actual sporting news was not common as a feature of sports shorts, tending to appear instead in newsreels.