Producer David O. Selznick, then production head at RKO Studios, petitioned the Academy Board of Governors to recognize the work of animator Willis O ' Brien for his groundbreaking work on 1933's King Kong.

In 1975, Producer Dino De Laurentiis paid RKO for the remake rights to King Kong.

In Ozzie Nelson's book, he wrote that Harriet was quite popular during the short time at RKO and they wanted her to continue her solo film career, but decided that it was more important for her to continue with the band and subsequent radio show.

The outcry from the column led RKO to change its plan and give the property back to Harriet Parsons.

* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

* In 1947, the studio acquired Frank Capra's production company, Liberty Films, which produced only 2 films in the 1940s: It's a Wonderful Life, released originally by RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union, released originally by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( the latter made under Paramount ownership ).

In 1986, when Ted Turner acquired MGM's library ( which by then had included Warner Bros .' pre-1950, MGM's pre-1986, and a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures catalogs ), he vowed to continue the preservation work MGM had started.

After several small pop hits, such as " Man in the Raincoat " by fourteen-year-old Priscilla Wright, the label was acquired by RKO General in 1957, who had recently acquired the venerable RKO Movie Studio.

In an effort to create entertainment synergy, RKO also acquired the struggling Mutual Radio Network in an attempt to enhance the record company by creating a national audience for the product.

Five years later, it was acquired by Reach Entertainment, who revived the label, splitting the RKO Records and the Unique Jazz into two distinct labels.

In 1990, RKO Pictures acquired RKO Records & it is now specialized in releasing soundtracks.

In 1993 Republic won a landmark legal decision reactivating the copyright on Frank Capra's 1946 RKO film It's a Wonderful Life ( under NTA, they had already acquired the film's negative, music score, and the story on which it was based, " The Greatest Gift ").

In April 1941, RKO Radio Pictures acquired the distribution rights of Fantasia and replaced the Fantasound soundtrack with a mono soundtrack.

Both films were acquired for theatrical release by RKO Radio Pictures.

Mid-1920s promotional image issued by Film Booking Offices, later acquired by RKO Evelyn went on to make more than two dozen silent films including three for the noted Austrian director, Josef von Sternberg, including The Last Command ( 1928 ), an epic war drama for which Emil Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor and featured a pivotal supporting performance for William Powell.

The film was nearing completion in October 1947 when Howard Hughes acquired RKO Radio Pictures, and the new studio head shelved it for two years before releasing it under the title They Live by Night in a single theater in London.

RKO ( whose rights consisted of only the original film and its sequel ) had its film library acquired by Ted Turner in 1986 via his company Turner Entertainment.

When RKO acquired the distribution rights to Le Jour se lève in preparation for remaking it as The Long Night, they also sought to buy up all available prints of the original film and destroy them.

The holding company acquired the name of RKO General in 1959 after General Tire dissolved the film studio.

In 1986, MGM's pre-May 1986 library ( also including the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, the Fleischer Studios / Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, most US rights to the RKO Pictures library, and Gilligan's Island and it's animated spin-offs ), was acquired by Ted Turner and his company Turner Entertainment Co .. After the library was acquired, MGM / UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries for video release ( the rest of the library went to Turner Home Entertainment ).

The stations were subsequently acquired in 1956 by a consortium including the American company RKO ; RKO subsequently acquired full ownership of the stations in 1963.

Toho had planned to shoot this film on location in Sri Lanka, but had to forgo that ( and scale back on production costs ) because they ended up paying RKO roughly $ 200, 000 ( US ) for the rights to the King Kong character.

* Lionsgate now controls most rights to the 1987 Vietnam War film Hamburger Hill through an equity investment Vestron Video made with its production outfit RKO Pictures, though Paramount retains TV and Internet rights.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

library, the U. S. rights to a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library, and the television series Gilligan's Island.

1 from Universal Studios, which controls the rights to the RKO Astaire-Rogers pictures in the UK.

RKO bought the screen rights in June for $ 1, 004 and Hawks briefly worked with Wilde on the film's treatment.

Upon acquiring the film's distribution rights April 1941, RKO initially continued the roadshow booking policy but presented the film in mono, which was easier to exhibit.

When Schary went to MGM, he purchased the rights to the script from RKO, over the objections of Louis B. Mayer, who believed that the public was tired of war films.

RKO had bought the film rights to the show and cast Ball as Arnaz's love interest in the picture.

Included were rights not only to some of UA's own releases, but to the RKO and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries.

* The U. S. rights to a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library

* Another Hitchcock film, Notorious, started out as a David O. Selznick production until the producer sold the rights to RKO before production began.

RKO originally owned the copyright, but the film was sold years later to American Broadcasting Company, which owns the rights to some of Selznick's other films.

The week-long, eight-show-a-day presentations continued throughout the most explosive periods of civil rights unrest in the mid -' 60s, culminating in Kaufman's final show at the RKO 58th Street theater in Manhattan with a line-up that included The Who and Cream in their American debuts.

In 1932 RKO Pictures ( known then as RKO Radio Pictures Inc .) purchased the rights to a Hildegarde Withers story by Stuart Palmer and launched a six-film series starting with The Penguin Pool Murder.

In June 1995, AMC filed a $ 250 million breach of contract lawsuit against Turner Entertainment, which alleged that Turner violated AMC's exclusive cable television rights to the RKO Pictures film library approximately 30 times between July 1994 and April 1995, charging that Turner's objective in violating the contract was " to gain unfair advantage for the Turner Classic Movies cable network ( which debuted in April 1994 ) at the expense of AMC.

"; Turner owns rights to the RKO film library and licensed RKO's films to AMC in an output deal that was slated to last through 2004.

JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy had been a Hollywoood producer and head of the RKO studio at one point in his career, and he used his influence to negotiate the film rights to Donovan's biography of his son.

1 from Universal Studios, who control the rights to the RKO Astaire-Rogers pictures in Europe.

MGM eventually resold the rights to RKO Pictures, who in turn sold them to Paramount Pictures.

I created the character long before I came to RKO and have always believed I retained subsequent picture rights and other rights.