2. origin
• RKO was one of the big five studios in
the hollywood golden age.
• It was founded in 1929.
• RKO has long been celebrated for its
cycle of musicals
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3. Films
• The studio produced two of the most
famous films in motion picture history
King Kong and Citizen Kane.
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Even as the U.S. economy
foundered, RKO had gone on a
spending spree, buying up
theater after theater to add to its
exhibition chain. In October 1930,
the company purchased a 50
percent stake in the New York's
Van Beuren studio
5. Genres of films
• Over the following two decades, RKO would go on to produce classics
in every genre, from dramas: Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life
(starring Jimmy Stewart), comedies: Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby
(starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn), horror films: the original
King Kong (starring Fay Wray), thrillers: Hitchcock’s Notorious (starring
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman), and perhaps the most influential film
of all-time, designated by AFI as Number One on their list of the 100
Greatest Movies, Orson Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane.
Simultaneously, RKO’s worked with Walt Disney studios and others,
bringing beloved classics like Fantasia, Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, and Bambi to the big screen.
6. Closing down
• With the closing down of production, RKO also shut its distribution exchanges;
from 1957 forward, remaining pictures were released through other companies,
primarily Universal-International. The final RKO film, Verboten!, a coproduction
with director Samuel Fuller's Globe Enterprises, was released by Columbia
Pictures in March 1959.
7. CLASSICS
• Angel Face-1953
• The Big Sky-1952
• Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.-1956
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8. Recent releases
• TALES FROM THE CRYPT: RITUAL-
2001
• ARE WE DONE YET?-2007
• THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS-
2001
