RKO Radio Pictures

From "Cat People"

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Film & Animation

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• RKO
• Radio
• Pictures

[jslasher1]

This fanfare, which is based on the first four notes of the Beethoven Fifth, was composed by Roy Webb and conducted by Constantin Bakalienikoff. It was used during World War II.

[fodsaks]

Still get a shiver of anticipation watching that.

I'm back in my bedroom as a kid, secretly watching a late night horror double bill on my old black and white TV.

[superdes51]

why they called the radio picture?

[astralagosto]

Hi UHF43,

But in the case of RKO, Howard Hughes had a lot to do with its destruction. He purged the studio of its best staff by going on an anticommnunist witchhunt and swindled RKO shareholders by lowering the value of RKO stock thru his financial deceptions.

If Howard Hughes had never been at RKO, it would have survived the antitrust regulations that drifted apart production, distribution, and exhibition.

[UHF43]

@astralagosto Not only Howard Hughes, but also antitrust regulations that drifted apart production, distribution and exhibition bussines.

[astralagosto]

Radio - Keith - Orpheum. One of the best studios Hollywood ever had. A combination of RCA, the Film Box Office Studio, and Keith - Albee - Orpheum vaudeville circuit. Combined by Joseph P. Kennedy (the President's father) into one of the best studios in Hollywood. Classics of R - K - O: Gunga Din, Little Women, The Animal Kingdom, Stingaree, Cimarron, Top Hat, Stage Door, Flying Down To Rio. A shame that a thug like Howard Hughes destroyed that studio.

[holydiver73]

RKO movies from the war years always had the da da da dah taken from Beethoven's 5th at the start of their idents as it's also morse for V for victory

[Henry350Z]

This logo came from the classic movie from RKO

"The Curse Of The Cat People"