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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 is a small, independent studio involved in co-productions of films. It wasn't always like this, though.. When the successful 1927 release of The Jazz Singer prompted an industry-wide migration to sound film, the Radio Corporation of America shopped around RCA Photophone (which, despite the name, was actually developed by General Electric, though at the time GE owned RCA) for use ...
RKO Radio Pictures was originally founded by RCA to promote their RCA Photophone sound system. The initials in the company name stand for " R adio K eith O rpheum", 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 ...
With a legacy that includes classic films like Citizen Kane, King Kong, and It’s a Wonderful Life, the modern RKO Pictures produces, finances and distributes both original entertainment and remakes of its classic films. RKO draws upon its brand and intellectual property assets to develop entertainment properties for production and distribution.
This instability proved to be a mixed blessing, as RKO was rocked by a succession of financial and organizational crises yet took truly courageous risks and produced a number of historic films and canonized classics including King Kong (1933), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Citizen Kane (1941), and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). RKO's financial ...
In fact, an eagle-eyed reader such as yourself has probably seen the radio tower logo used in many of the early RKO films. During its 25 years in film production RKO produced many memorable films, including the Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire musicals, the early pictures of Katharine Hepburn, and most famous of all, Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane.”
RKO-Pathé Pictures was founded in 1931 after RKO acquired Pathé Exchange, until it was completely shuttered in 1932 and was folded into RKO Radio Pictures. Logo (July 17, 1931-1932) Visuals: On a cloudy tower, there is a rotating globe with a rooster on top, similar to the RKO logo; the words "AN RKO-Pathé PICTURE" are in the middle.
