King Kong (1933) By the time the meal was over, they’d agreed to combine RCA’s Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain with Kennedy’s company (as well as the fledgling Pathe Studios) to form Radio-Keith-Orpheum, or the RKO Corporation. publicity barbara moffett at rko studios 4b10-205 free shipping when you purchase ten (10) or more photos ***all photos will arrive as shown without the watermark. Balboa Amusement Film Company. A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.In Montreal, a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involved.At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.In New Orleans, discharged army Captain Vance Colby learns of his father's killing done by three local Creole gents at a card game, and he sets out to punish the killers.When underground beings explore the surface world from a deep oil well and inadvertantly cause a panic, only Superman can prevent a tragedy.The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.Murder of a woman sparks a search for a killer.As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.After greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.In 1249, an Egyptian princess allies herself with the son of the Caliph of Baghdad in order to rid Egypt of its Bedouin invaders.Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Check out a compare contrast at Historic Aerials.
Location of the famed RKO backlot ranch where Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart was shot as well as the classic "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" starring Charles Laughton. @anonymous - I think you are correct.I don't know why there weren't many plaques around LA showing the different original sites. RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot owned by RKO Pictures and later Desilu Productions, in Culver City, California. East boundary was Amestoy. Nothing against him but sad that is the best name they could come up with for an area with such a local history. filming location for "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939) and dozens of other classic films including images from the extensive historical photograph collection of the Bison Archives Bookmark this page and return frequently for a wealth of information and images focusing on the famous RKO Encino Ranch. I would say he also used the same streets for the exterior scenes of Ambersons. I lived on Martha St. Porch on the right, rather than the left side as it is in Ambersons and Wonderful Life.I was fascinated to find out that the martini house still stands.I think the trees in the picture are on Louies, half of the movie ranch is the park the other is the villageThe neighborhood (from Louise to the park) )was where the former studio was.
The RKO Building (1928 - 1957) R-K-O Studios was at one time located along Gower Street in Hollywood, adjacent to Paramount Studios. I have traipsed around looking For different spots on Laurel Canyon . This can be verified by Googling "Encino Village." The empty land just to the East of the RKO ranch is where Balboa Park exists today. Little did they know how innovative the company would be. After a tumultuous period beginning with Howard Hughes’ purchase of the studio in 1948, RKO regained its bearings with its acquisition by Ted Hartley and Dina Merrill in 1989.Over the following two decades, RKO would go on to produce classics in nearly 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. Love the history of the Ranch!