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RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America studio were brought together ...
RKO Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio Pictures) is an American film production and distribution company. The original company produced films from 1929 through 1957, with releases extending until its dissolution in 1959.
Films made by RKO Pictures (1929−1959) — a major film studio based in Hollywood; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ...
RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California.Best known as Forty Acres [1] and "the back forty," [2] it was also called "Desilu Culver," [3] the "RKO backlot," and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch," depending on which studio owned the property at the time.
In late 1957, the company bought the RKO Pictures production facilities for $6 million from General Tire and Rubber, including RKO's main facilities on Gower Street in Hollywood and the RKO-Pathé lot (now Culver Studios) in Culver City. [11] [12] This purchase included Forty Acres, the backlot where exteriors for Mayberry were filmed. [13]
Val Lewton (May 7, 1904 – March 14, 1951) was a Russian-American novelist, film producer and screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
RKO Pictures animated short films (70 P) S. Silly Symphonies (77 P) Pages in category "RKO Pictures short films" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of ...
Citizen Kane was the only film made under Welles's original contract with RKO Pictures, which gave him complete creative control. [22]: 223 Welles's new business manager and attorney permitted the contract to lapse.