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RKO Pictures (RKO) (1929–1959): one of the Big Five studios (originally incorporated as RKO Radio Pictures), bought by Howard Hughes in 1948, was mismanaged and dismantled and was largely defunct by the 1957 studio lot sale; revived several times as an independent studio, with most recent film releases in 2012 and 2015.
A RKO Radio Pictures (atualmente RKO Pictures LLC) é um estúdio de cinema independe que atualmente vem lançando filmes de forma esporádica. No passado foi uma empresa produtora e distribuidora de filmes criada pela Radio Corporation of America (), cujo sistema de som em película (Photophone) tinha sido preterido pelo da rival Western Electric (Vitaphone).
RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company. In its origin, as RKO Radio Pictures (a subsidiary of Radio-Keith-Orpheum) it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
The new owner was more interested in RKO's film library as TV syndication fodder than in its production operation, whose output had fallen to barely a dozen pictures per annum, few of any real note. There were the Disney releases, including Treasure Island (1950) and Alice in Wonderland (1951), and the occasional quality noir thriller such as Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1952).
Jun 20, 2024 · Background. RKO Radio Pictures was originally founded by RCA to promote their RCA Photophone sound system. The initials in the company name stand for "Radio Keith Orpheum", reflecting the joint venture of RCA, the Keith Orpheum theater circuit, and the Film Booking Offices of America of Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of the 35th U.S. President, John F. Kennedy.
A Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO Pictures) egy amerikai filmgyártó és forgalmazó vállalat volt 1928 és 1957 között. Története [ szerkesztés ] A többi stúdióhoz képest későn, 1928 -ban jelent meg, mikor a stúdiók a hangosfilmre való átállás lázában égtek.
May 15, 2020 · RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures is an American film production and distribution company referenced in both The Rocky Horror Show and it's film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The lyric "by RKO" is heard during the final verse of the opening song, "Science Fiction, Double Feature".
