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Republic Pictures is currently an acquisition-only label owned by Paramount Pictures. [1] Its history dates back to Republic Pictures Corporation, an American film studio that originally operated from 1935 to 1967, based in Los Angeles, California. It had production and distribution facilities in Studio City, as well as a movie ranch in Encino.
National Telefilm Associates (NTA) was a distribution company primarily concerned with the syndication of American film libraries to television, including the Republic Pictures film library. It was successful enough on cable television between 1983 and 1985 that it renamed itself Republic Pictures and undertook film production and home video ...
The year 1945, the end of the Golden Age of Serials, [3] was the last in which Republic released any 15-chapter serials, the remainder being either 12 or 13 chapters in length. In 1966 footage from the serial was edited together into the 100-minute film Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine .
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 ...
AB-PT Pictures used the Republic Pictures lot for productions. [121] Republic was also their distributor, physically delivering to even AB-PT theaters plus sale to non-AB-PT theaters. [122] American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres Pictures Corporation was formed on December 30, 1956. Irving H. Levin was appointed President of the company. [121]
CBS Television Studios – renamed to CBS Studios. CBS Television Distribution – renamed to CBS Media Ventures in 2021. Terrytoons – Theatrical library moved to Paramount Pictures through Melange Pictures, LLC; Spelling Television (from CBS) – library reunited with the Republic Pictures' (from Viacom) Television library.
A production logo, studio logo, [1] vanity card, vanity plate, or vanity logo is a logo used by movie studios and television production companies to brand what they produce and to determine the production company and the distributor of a television show or film. Production logos are usually seen at the beginning of a theatrical movie or video ...
In Republic Pictures' version, the four or five episodes for each case were edited together into a feature-length film. The Republic Pictures version is currently out of print, but can still be found in some libraries in the US and Canada only. The GPN version was available to the general public for purchase through their website until 2007.