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- In 1981, RKO General, corporate heir to RKO Radio Pictures under the General Tire and Rubber Company, began to re-enter film production by resurrecting the RKO Pictures label, which co-produced several films with various studios, such as Avco Embassy Pictures, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount Pictures.
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The original RKO Pictures ceased production in 1957 and was effectively dissolved two years later. In 1978, broadcaster RKO General, the corporate heir, launched a production subsidiary, RKO Pictures Inc., which revived the theatrical brand with its first releases three years later.
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.
- The Formation and Early Development of RKO
- Reworking The UA Model
- Wartime Recovery
- The Decline and Fall of RKO
- Further Reading
Legend has it that RKO was created in a 1928 meeting between RCA president David Sarnoff (1891–1971) and Boston financier Joseph Kennedy (father of JFK) in the Oyster Bar in New York's Grand Central Station. While the meeting itself may have been apocryphal, Sarnoff and Kennedy did in fact control the elements that would merge to create RKO. Most o...
The success of Disney's Snow White was a harbinger of major changes in RKO's production policies and market strategy, which coalesced after the arrival of George Schaefer (1888–1981) as RKO president in late 1938. Schaefer was a former top executive at United Artists who was hired to adapt the UA model—i.e., the financing and distribution of indepe...
Schaefer's departure in mid-1942 signaled the deepening financial concerns at RKO, which had not returned to consistent profitability despite the waning Depression, the banner year in 1939 (which resulted in net losses for the studio), and the emergence from receivership in January 1940. By early 1942 it was clear that the "war boom" would be as mo...
When the studio reopened, Hughes was supervising all aspects of administration and production, and the results were disastrous. RKO released a few notable films early in Hughes's regime—most of them initiated under Schary, including two noir classics, The Set-Up (1949), directed by Robert Wise, and They Live By Night (1948), directed by newcomer Ni...
Berg, A. Scott. Goldwyn: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1989. Croce, Arlene, The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book. New York: Outerbridge & Lazard, 1972. Deitrich, Noah, and Bob Thomas. Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1972. Haver, Ronald. David O. Selznick's Hollywood. New York: Knopf, 1980. Hirsch, Foster. The Dark Side of t...
By the early 1930s, RKO was producing over forty pictures a year, releasing them under the names "Radio Pictures" and, for a short time after the 1931 merger, "RKO Pathé." Cimarron (1931), produced by LeBaron himself, would become the only RKO production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture ; nonetheless, it was a major money-loser on ...
RKO releases 12 films in the first year, including Dixiana and Hit the Deck which featured Technicolor sequences and the first three of a series of comedies starring the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. 1931. David O Selznick is hired as production chief. Cimarron receives Oscar for Best Picture. 1932.
RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures was formed in the late 1920s in a case of corporate synergy. Combining the KAO theater chain, the FBO production studio, and RCA’s sound technology, RKO was on the forefront of talking pictures.
Sep 27, 2024 · Background. In 1981, RKO General, corporate heir to RKO Radio Pictures under the General Tire and Rubber Company, began to re-enter film production by resurrecting the RKO Pictures label, which co-produced several films with various studios, such as Avco Embassy Pictures, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount Pictures.
