For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong ( 1933 ).

The score for King Kong ( 1933 ) made Steiner's reputation ; it was one of the first American films to have an extensive musical score ( it was re-used in a number of RKO films, including Back to Bataan.

At RKO, Linwood Dunn used a travelling matte to create " wipes " – where there were transitions like a windshield wiper in films such as Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ).

She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. (" Gold Diggers of 1933 "), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures and, in her second RKO picture, Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), she worked for the first time with Fred Astaire.

Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Roberta ( 1935 ), Top Hat ( 1935 ), Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ), Shall We Dance ( 1937 ), Carefree ( 1938 ), and The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle ( 1939 ) ( The Barkleys of Broadway ( 1949 ) was produced later at MGM ).

On his return to RKO, he got fifth billing after fourth billed Ginger Rogers in the 1933 Dolores del Río vehicle Flying Down to Rio.

* King Kong ( RKO, 1933 )

Arthur returned to California for the holidays, and appeared in the RKO film The Past of Mary Holmes ( 1933 ), her first film in two years.

The two animators broke off ties with Schlesinger later in 1933 over budget disputes with the miserly producer, and went to the Van Beuren studio, which was making cartoon for RKO Radio Pictures.

Posthumously, Wallace's most famous work would be one he never got the chance to see: Out of the many scripts he'd penned for RKO, Merian C. Cooper's " gorilla picture " would have the most lasting influence, becoming the classic 1933 King Kong.

Cooper was head of production for RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1935.

* Lost in Limehouse ( 1933 ) ( RKO ) ... Dr. Jackson ... aka Lady Esmeralda's Predicament ( 1933 )

In 1933, he made a short film for RKO called So This Is Harris !, which won an Academy Award for best live action short subject.

RKO filed the copyright for the name King Kong on Feb 24 1933.

In a four-day bench trial in Los Angeles, Judge Manuel Real made the final decision and gave his verdict on November 24, 1976, affirming that the King Kong novelization and serialization were indeed in the public domain, and Universal could make its movie as long as it didn't infringe on original elements in the 1933 RKO film, which had not passed into public domain.

Mighty Joe Young is a 1949 RKO Radio Pictures film made by the same creative team responsible for King Kong ( 1933 ).

Buoyed by the enormous success of King Kong in 1933 and its profitable theatrical reissues in 1938, 1942, and 1946, RKO had great hopes for Mighty Joe Young.

The Son of Kong is a 1933 American adventure film / monster movie produced by RKO Pictures.

Christopher Strong is a 1933 RKO film, directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Katharine Hepburn in her second screen role.

* In 1996, Mattel's Hot Wheels brand released a two-car pack entitled Home Improvement based on the show which featured Tim's 1933 Ford Convertible and the Dixie Chopper racing mower ( with a mini-figure Tim as the rider ) as well as a mini-figure of Al and a Binford tool box.

In 1933, Pickford underwent a Technicolor screen test for an animated / live action film version of Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney discarded the project when Paramount released its own version of the book.

Two short feature films and a short subject — Thunder Over Mexico based on the " Maguey " footage, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day respectively — were completed and released in the United States between the autumn of 1933 and early 1934.

As a result, the first horror films in color were produced and released by the studio: Doctor X ( 1932 ) and Mystery of the Wax Museum ( 1933 ).

By January 1933, the film's protagonist Robert Elliot Burns – who was still imprisoned in New Jersey – and a number of different chain gang prisoners nationwide in the United States were able to appeal and were released.

* The role of Anne of Cleves was played by Elsa Lanchester in The Private Life of Henry VIII, which was released in 1933.

", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra in 1933 and released on Vocalion, " Reefer Man " for Cab Calloway in 1932, " Dynamite Rag ", " Meet Me at No Special Place ", recorded by Nat King Cole, " Alhambra Syncopated Waltzes ", " Te-na-na ( From New Orleans )", " Beale Street Mama ", recorded by Bessie Smith and Cab Calloway, and " Palesteena ( Lena from Palesteena )".

Audiences in the United States who saw the film began to question the legitimacy of the United States legal system, and in January 1933 the film's protagonist, Robert Elliot Burns, who was still imprisoned in New Jersey, and a number of different chain gang prisoners nationwide in the United States were able to appeal and were released.

* Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ) was released for the first time on DVD on March 2, 2010.

Mickey's Mellerdrammer is a United Artists film released in 1933.

First released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it starred what were then billed as the " Four Marx Brothers " ( Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo ) and also featured Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern and Edgar Kennedy.

* Mary McElroy was kidnapped and held for ransom in 1933 and released by her captors unharmed.

The shorts began to have stronger plots too, and the success of Silly Symphonies would be tremendously boosted after The Three Little Pigs was released in 1933 and became a box office sensation ; the film was featured in movie theaters for several months and also featured the hit song that became the anthem of the Great Depression, " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf ".

* The Twentieth Century pictures released by UA between 1933 and 1935 rest with the successor company, 20th Century Fox.

He starred in several popular films at this time, including The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi alongside Betty Grable in 1933 and Search for Beauty ( 1934 ), and in 1936 was Flash Gordon in the very successful Flash Gordon serial, followed by two sequels, released by Universal in 1938 and 1940.

The Big Bad Wolf, also known as Zeke Wolf or Br ' er Wolf, was a fictional character from Walt Disney's animation Three Little Pigs, directed by Burt Gillett and first released on May 27, 1933.

Hornsby re-signed with the Cardinals in 1933, but was released partway through the season and was picked up by the St. Louis Browns.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 and the subsequent dissolution of the Zentrumspartei, Lübke was accused of misappropriating public funds and imprisoned ; after 20 months in prison he was released, when no evidence could be produced to back up the politically motivated charges.

Masaoka created the first talkie anime, Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, released in 1933, and the first anime made entirely using cel animation, The Dance of the Chagamas ( 1934 ).

Despite Schleicher giving in to Hindenburg ′ s brow-beating, on January 12, 1933 the League released a public letter to Hindenburg asking that Schleicher be sacked at once.

The 1933 film version directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack is a lost film and the first released as a talkie.

L ' idee, when released in 1933, featured a score by composer Arthur Honegger, including an ondes Martenot, which is believed to be the very first use of an electronic musical instrument in film history.

New Zealand has released several postage stamps portraying the Huia, and the New Zealand sixpence circulated from 1933 to 1966 featured a female Huia on the reverse.

The camp commander gives a speech to prisoners about to be released as part of a pardoning action near Christmas 1933.