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	The Culver Studios - About Us - Studio History
		The studio was original built by silent movie pioneer Thomas Ince in 1918.
		RKO acquired the studios in 1928 and Joseph Kennedy served as one of the studio heads.
		By the late 1970s the once lovely studio had become a dilapidated wreck and remained that way until the mid 1980s, when it was purchased by the joint ownership of Grant Tinker and Gannett.
	www.theculverstudios.com /landing_pages/9,3.html (936 words)

	RKO Pictures - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Previously, the RKO theater chain had been divested in the wake of the Hollywood Anti-trust Case of 1948; in 1953, the chain was sold to the Century Circuit; some houses that survived into the 1970s later were sold to Cineplex Odeon.
		The former RKO lots were home to Desilu until 1966, when Desilu was acquired by Gulf+Western and merged into G+W's Paramount Pictures as the Paramount Television studios, which the Hollywood lot remains to this day.
		RKO Pictures have reprinted some RKO titles which had fallen into public domain and syndicated them to television, with a modernized version of the old RKO logos.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/RKO (2085 words)

	RKO studios
		RKO Studios was one of the most important film studios in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
		RKO flourished during the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood and yet for all its prestige, awards and skill it was not able to make the move, as many other studios did, into the ‘Modern Era’.
		RKO may well be the only film studio in history who can say that their fortunes were saved by a monkey.
	ga.essortment.com /moviehistoryrk_rlkg.htm (1171 words)

	seattle bellevue redmond weather directory washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From 1936 to 1954, the studio released his features and shorts; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the highest grossing movie in the period between The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939).
		RKO appealed the decision to the District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals.
		In 1989, RKO Pictures was spun off yet again and a majority interest in it was acquired by its present owners: actress and Post Cereals heiress Dina Merrill and her husband, producer Ted Hartley, who merged it with their Pavilion Communications to form the present RKO Pictures LLC.
	www.coolpup.net /mod3.php?title=RKO (7038 words)

	RKO Forty Acres
		In 1954, the RKO movie ranch that was located in the community of Encino was closed and purchased by the Encino Park housing development.
		RKO General was notable not for what they produced, but what they released, a massive backlog of movies and shorts that were all sent to television stations in Los Angeles.
		By 1964, Lucy realized she was struggling against the big movie studios as television was growing up and began ordering television pilots to boost her studio profits and stay in business.
	ponderosascenery.homestead.com /files/rko.html (2117 words)

	Studio
		Studios are an integral part of independent television production, providing television programming created either by independent producers or, at times, the studio itself.
		In many ways Warner Brothers, the studio, was instrumental in discovering the techniques, the narrative strategies, and the modes of production needed for a large film studio to shift into the production of series television.
		Run on the fame of actress Mary Tyler Moore and the business-sense of her then-husband Grant Tinker, MTM became a major television studio that provided everything from writers and producers to stages and cameras.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/studio/studio.htm (526 words)

	RKO
		The globe still sits atop the former studios main building at Gower and Melrose Avenue in Hollywood (see photos), but RKO was unable to make the transition to major contemporary studio.
		RKO Studios was one of the most important studios of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood in the 1930's.
		Hughes continued his systematic disruption and dismantling of the studio through 1955, when he split it into two separate entities, one of which was RKO General.
	caot.lacitycollege.edu /112/FinalKane/RKO.htm (285 words)

	Paramount Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		RKO Studios was once located at the southwest corner of the Paramount lot (you can still see their giant globe there today), but it was eventually absorbed into the Paramount lot.
		RKO was a major studio in its own right; it once owned the Culver Studios as well.
		Paramount Studio is bounded by Van Ness Avenue (on the east), Melrose (on the south), Gower Street (on the west), and the Hollywood Cemetery (on Santa Monica Boulevard) to the north.
	www.seeing-stars.com /Studios/ParamountStudios.shtml (1210 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
		RKO was Walt's distributor at the time and the studio brass had no idea how to pitch a project like Snow White to theatre owners.
		The resulting brainstorm, borrowing from the success of the two RKO promotional shorts, was an anthology, tying together several smaller projects with a comedic narrative on how Disney animated films were made.
		The older pieces such as the RKO training film and promotional short are understandably aged and exhibit a fair amount of dirt.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/waltdisneystudios.php (2021 words)

	RKO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) was formed in 1928 by merging three companies: The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Joseph Kennedy's small studio Film Booking Office (FBO) and Keith-Albee-Orpheum vaudeville empire.
		RKO had the shortest and least profitable life of any major studio, partly because of the often changing management.
		He had no real interest in moviemaking: he sold off the studio's theathers (now a part of the Cineplex Odeon group), fired hundreds of employees and by 1953 studio lossed totaled $20 million.
	kopteri.net /koti/milaja/planet/RKO.htm (151 words)

	RKO
		After purchasing the former RKO Radio Pictures from Howard Hughes (minus the motion picture lot that went to Desilu), all of the stations that General Tire owned were merged into General Teleradio Incorporated.
		As the new head of RKO’s chain of radio stations, Bruce Johnson’s prime responsibility was to keep the chain from losing ground to the emerging power of FM stations to attract and maintain loyal audiences.
		RKO General’s KHJ-TV channel 9 in Los Angeles was the last station license to be pulled.
	www.bossradioforever.com /html/rko.html (1859 words)

	The Studios >> German-Hollywood Connection
		But the studios' origins are classic examples of the American dream and private enterprise, not to mention the contribution of German Jews to the growth of Hollywood.
		The German studio known as Münchner Lichtspielkunst AG (MLK) was better known by the phonetic form of its initials, or Emelka.
		Established in Munich in 1919 as a competitor of the larger Ufa studios in Berlin, Emelka was where Alfred Hitchcock directed his first picture.
	www.germanhollywood.com /studios.html (550 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Sony sells historic Culver Studios for $125 million
		LOS ANGELES – The historic Culver Studios, where such films as "Citizen Kane" and television classics such as "Lassie" were filmed, has been sold to a private investment group for $125 million.
		The Culver Studios were built in 1919 by Thomas Ince and have been host to such legendary filmmakers as Cecil B. DeMille and David O. Selznick.
		The lot was once home to RKO Pathe Studios when it was run by Joseph Kennedy and later served as home to Desilu Studios, owned by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20040406-1435-studiosale.html (714 words)

	0nline: The Liev Schreiber Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, the film asserts that Miss Parsons terrified and flmailed studio chiefs like Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Jack Warner and Samuel Goldwyn by telling them that unless they crushed the film and destroyed every print, she would spread the word that Hollywood was dominated by Jews.
		It was only the support of Schaefer, the RKO chief, who was a Roman Catholic, that led to the release of the classic film after a plea by Welles to the RKO board.
		RKO 281 (referring to the working title given to Kane to protect its secret topic) reveals media mogul Hearst's fury when he finds out about the film and tries to stop its release.
	www.lievschreiber.org /1999c.shtml (3562 words)

	The 1966 Batman Tribute Site Culver Studios
		During this time RKO was having problems with cash (they many times had this problem) and the only thing that kept them from going under was the popularity and cash flow Kong provided.
		It was difficut times at the old studio to say the least, behind the scenes, the word on the street was that RKO had become Hughes' personal bordello.
		Truthfully, General owned a bunch of TV stations at the time and wanted the studio not to film as much as to gain the rights to all those old RKO films that could be shown on their TV stations.
	www.1966batfan.com /batlocations2.htm (1619 words)

	RKO
		Maureen O'Sullivan, heavily involved with raising her own family, declined all offers to continue in the series, although from time to time it seemed as if she were prepared to return.
		The decision to produce at RKO Studios was indeed a happy one, for this studio possessed a matte department second to none, a backlot that boasted its own jungle and lake, and a 50% ownership of the Churubusco Studios in Mexico.
		In Shanghai, Bombay and Egypt, Tarzan broke the record of all the movies released by RKO in its history.
	www.geostan.ca /rko.html (1272 words)

	Culver Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Culver Studios is the exception to that rule; its exterior facade is a grand colonial mansion, a virtual copy of George Washington's Mount Vernon, fronted by sweeping green lawns, sculpted hedges, flowering rose bushes, and the picturesque white "mansion" itself.
		So if you really want to see the inside of this historic studio, go to "Audiences Unlimited" and see if they have tickets to a show taping at the studio - if so, then with ticket in hand, you may be able to walk inside the studio for the tapings.
		The public is not admitted to the studio (except for live TV tapings).
	www.seeing-stars.com /Studios/CulverStudios.shtml (1211 words)

	Studio System - KOLOSSAL A CONFRONTO
		Una vera competizione tra studios, che si combattevano l'uno contro l'altro sempre nel tentativo di superarsi attraverso film di grande impatto.
		Questi studios sono ormai pressoché scomparsi, fusi tra loro o sostituiti da multinazionali straniere che hanno assorbito anche centinaia di milioni di dollari accumulati in debiti dalle precedenti compagnie.
		Questa sezione accompagna, in un breve riassunto, la singola storia degli Studios più importanti, a partire dalle otto Majors hollywoodiane più famose.
	www.cinekolossal.com /studios (499 words)

	RKO Forty Acres
		Known as the Forty Acres even though the actual acreage is little more than 28 acres (the backlot and the Culver City Studio sites cover approximately 40 acres), this primary backlot for the RKO Studio (another one existed in the San Fernando Valley community of Encino) came into existence around 1926/27.
		In 1928, RKO was created and took over the ownership of the Culver City property.
		The Studio is located at 9336 Washington Blvd in Culver City.
	employees.oxy.edu /jerry/rko40.htm (624 words)

	The Andy Griffith Show
		One of RKO's first movies, The Bird of Paradise, was filmed at this location, then the studio started building up the backlot for jungle and village scenes for what later became the location for the Tarzan and King Kong movies.
		In 1935, David O. Selznick leased the backlot property from RKO to construct the city of Atlanta, a railroad station, and the Tara mansion for the $4 million blockbuster movie, Gone With The Wind.
		While the outdoor filming was produced at Desilu Studio's '40 Acres' backlot, many of the interior shots were filmed at Desilu's Cahuenga Studios, now Ren-Mar Studios, at 846 N. Cahuenga Blvd. in Hollywood.
	www.radoknews.com /andy-griffith-show.html (989 words)

	Welcome to the Big Sleep \| Robert Mitchum \| Not Starring …
		Signed to RKO Studios, he was anxious to do something besides the westerns that had given him his start and lobbied for the title role in Dillinger, according to biographer Lee Server.
		RKO decided that the film didn't suit their new star and the iconic role went to Lawrence Tierney instead.
		Untamed (1954) Mitchum was often loaned out by RKO to other studios, but when he signed on for Track of the Cat for 20th-Century Fox his agent knew nothing about it!
	home.sprintmail.com /~sknolle/mitchum/not.html (1519 words)

	RKO Pictures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1981, RAI, the public broadcasting service, acquired the Italian rights to the RKO library, which it now shares with Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest.
		As for RKO's primary release deals, the Disney pictures originally distributed by the studio are controlled by the Walt Disney Company and its subsidiary Buena Vista.
		Rights to the Goldwyn features released by RKO, which had been held by the Samuel Goldwyn Company, are now controlled by Sony Pictures, via MGM.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RKO (8260 words)

	Lucille Ball FILMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Her film work reflected her young talent and encouraged her capability to perform comedic sketches and roles, as well as dramatic parts in a variety of musicals, comedies and dramas.
		When she came to Hollywood, she bought a small home for her family to live in and began working for fair wages, sometime even being offered more than usual for her status.
		Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz would later buy RKO and transform it into what was known as Desilu Studios, and presently Desilu, too.
	members.tripod.com /TropicanaNightclub/LucilleBall_FILMS1.html (570 words)

	40 Acres - The Lost Backlot Studio of Movie & Television Fame
		Pictured right in a 1963 aerial photograph, the backlot by this year had served as the primary outdoor filming location for Hollywood classics such as King Kong (1933) and Gone With The Wind (1939), and was at the time of this photograph the filming location for the film The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
		By 1957, RKO Studios and the 40 Acres backlot had already changed ownership several times, including ownership by Howard Hughes from 1948 to 1955.
		The studio and backlot acreage changed hands again in 1957 when it was purchased by Desilu Productions, the studio formed in 1951 by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
	www.retroweb.com /40acres.html (1436 words)

	Howard Hughes’s Last Hurrah (ridding commies from his RKO Studios) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hughes didn't bother with politics for most of his life, but Communism on the RKO Studios lot served as his great awakening to what was happening on the world stage after World War II.
		Reportedly, this was the first time a studio had taken legal action against a Communist party member.
		Eventually, through three years of appeals, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Hughes was vindicated: Jarrico wasn't entitled to damages, and Hughes and RKO were well within their rights by keeping his name off the picture.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1351812/posts (2122 words)

	Junior Muscle International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Desilu's first studio was on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood at the site of what is now the Ren-Mar rental studio; the first episodes of I Love Lucy were filmed there.
		The decline of RKO Studios began in 1948 when it was bought out by eccentric tycoon Howard Hughes multi billionaire of oil and ‘you name it!’ Who then sold it to a tire company.
		Wings, the studio's 1928 release, received the very first Academy Award® for Best Picture from the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.juniormuscle.com /jmi2003/Desilu.html (604 words)

	The Ghost Ship (1943) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It came as no surprise that this production is a worthy addition to the already acclaimed collection of films produced by Val Lewton on meagre budgets for RKO Studios.
		Lewton was commended for the type of effective psychological thrillers he could produce at a profit for very little money and soon the other studios tried to emmulate his style, but they had to spend twice as much to acheive anything close to the mood and feel of Lewton's output.
		Despite the lack of supernatural elements, THE GHOST SHIP was one of a new brand of horror films that combine a strong element of film noir with unrelenting suspense supported by an intelligently written script.
	www.missinglinkclassichorror.co.uk /ship.htm (651 words)

	Indian Palms Country Club and Resort
		An internationally famous romantic young couple fell in love with the valley and purchased 640 acres of prime land which featured timeless views of the beautiful Santa Rosa Mountains.
		Jackie Cochran, Aviatrix and her husband Floyd Odlum, Founder of Atlas Corp. and CEO of RKO Studios, discovered O-C Ranch (currently known as Indian Plams Country Club), quite by accident.
		In the late 1940's he sold RKO Studios to Howard Hughes.
	www.indianpalms.com /about (666 words)

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