RKO rasmlari - RKO Pictures - Wikipedia

"RKO" bu erga yo'naltiriladi. Boshqa maqsadlar uchun qarang RKO (ajralish).
RKO Pictures, Inc.
Xususiy
SanoatHarakatli Rasmlar
TaqdirBankrot
O'tmishdoshlar
Tashkil etilgan1928 yil 23 oktyabr; 92 yil oldin (1928-10-23) (RKO Productions Inc., Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.ning sho'ba korxonasi sifatida)
Ta'sischiDevid Sarnoff
Ishdan bo'shatilgan1959 yil 7 mart; 61 yil oldin (1959-03-07)
Bosh ofis1270 Amerika xiyoboni,
Manxetten, Nyu-York, AQSh
Ota-ona

RKO rasmlari Amerika filmlarini ishlab chiqarish va tarqatish kompaniyasi edi. Asl mujassamlashda, kabi RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (Radio-Keyt-Orpheum filiali, aka: RKO)[1] bu biri edi Katta besh studiyalar ning Gollivud "s Oltin asr. Biznes shundan keyin shakllangan Keyt-Albi-Orpheum (KAO) teatr zanjiri va Jozef P. Kennedining Amerika filmlarini bron qilish idoralari (FBO) studiyasi boshqaruvi ostida birlashtirildi Amerika radio korporatsiyasi (RCA) 1928 yil oktyabrda.[a] RCA boshlig'i Devid Sarnoff kompaniyaning bozorini yaratish uchun birlashishni ishlab chiqdi ovozli film texnologiya, RCA telefoni. 1940-yillarning o'rtalariga kelib, studiya investorning nazorati ostida edi Floyd Odlum.

RKO azaldan bosh rollarni ijro etgan musiqiy tsikli bilan tanilgan Fred Aster va Zanjabil Rojers 30-yillarning o'rtalaridan oxirigacha. Aktyorlar Katarin Xepbern va keyinroq, Robert Mitchum studiyasida birinchi katta muvaffaqiyatlarga erishdilar. Kari Grant yillar davomida tayanch edi. Ishlab chiqaruvchining ishi Val Levton arzon byudjetli dahshat birligi va RKO ning ushbu sohaga oid ko'plab tashabbuslari endi ma'lum film noir haqiqatan ham film tanqidchilari va tarixchilar tomonidan olqishlandi. Studiya kinofilm tarixidagi eng taniqli ikkita filmni suratga oldi: King Kong va Fuqaro Keyn. RKO kabi taniqli qo'shma prodyuserlar uchun ham javobgar edi Bu ajoyib hayot va Mashhur Va animatsiya prodyuserining ko'plab taniqli filmlarini tarqatdi Uolt Disney (1937 yildan 1950 yillarning o'rtalariga qadar) va etakchi mustaqil ishlab chiqaruvchi Semyuel Goldvin.

Maverick sanoatchi Xovard Xyuz 1948 yilda RKO-ni o'z qo'liga oldi. Ko'p yillik tartibsizliklar va uning nazorati ostida tanazzulga uchraganidan so'ng, studiya tomonidan sotib olingan General Shinalar va rezina kompaniyasi 1955 yilda. Dastlabki RKO Pictures 1957 yilda ishlab chiqarishni to'xtatdi va ikki yildan so'ng amalda tarqatib yuborildi. 1981 yilda translyator RKO General, korporativ merosxo'r, studiyani ishlab chiqarish sho'ba korxonasi sifatida qayta tikladi, RKO Pictures Inc. 1989 yilda ushbu biznes qolgan aktivlari bilan, shu jumladan savdo belgilari va qayta tuzish ko'plab klassik RKO filmlariga bo'lgan huquqlar, hozirgi kunda kichik mustaqil kompaniyani boshqaradigan yangi egalariga sotildi RKO Pictures MChJ.

Kompaniyaning kelib chiqishi

1927 yil oktyabrda, Warner Bros. ozod qilindi Jazz qo'shiqchisi, birinchi uzunlikdagi gaplashadigan rasm. Uning muvaffaqiyati turtki bo'ldi Gollivud jimjimadan -ga aylantirish ovozli film ommaviy ishlab chiqarish. The Amerika radio korporatsiyasi (RCA) rivojlangan optikani boshqargan ovozli film tizim, Fotofon, yaqinda tomonidan ishlab chiqilgan General Electric, RCA ning bosh kompaniyasi. Biroq, ovozli filmlarda kutilgan boomga qo'shilish umidlari katta to'siqqa duch keldi: Warner Bros. va Tulki, Gollivudning yana bir avangard ovozli studiyasi, moliyaviy va texnologik jihatdan ERPI kompaniyasiga tegishli edi. AT & T "s Western Electric bo'linish. Sohaning ikkita yirik kompaniyasi, Birlamchi va Lyov /MGM, yana ikkitasi bilan yirik studiyalar, Umumjahon va Birinchi milliy, ovozni konvertatsiya qilish uchun ham ERPI bilan shartnoma tuzishga tayyor edilar.[2]

Dastlabki radio-Keyt-Orpheum logotipi

1927 yil oxirida Fotofonga mijoz qidirmoqda Devid Sarnoff, keyin RCA bosh menejeri murojaat qildi Jozef P. Kennedi tizimni Kennedining oddiy studiyasida ishlatish haqida, Amerika filmlarini bron qilish idoralari (FBO). Muzokaralar natijasida General Electric FBOga katta qiziqish bildirmoqda; Ko'rinishidan, Sarnoff kompaniyaning kino sanoatida markaziy mavqega erishish va Fotofon daromadlarini maksimal darajaga ko'tarish rejasini oldindan o'ylab topgan edi. Keyingi kun tartibida Gollivudning etakchi ishlab chiqaruvchi kompaniyalariga tegishli qator ko'rgazma maydonlarini ta'minlash. Kennedi bunday sotib olish imkoniyatini tekshirishni boshladi. O'sha paytda, katta Keyt-Albi-Orpheum (KAO) teatr sxemasi, o'sha paytda o'chib borayotgan jonli muhit atrofida qurilgan vedvil, kino biznesiga o'tishga harakat qilayotgan edi. 1927 yil o'rtalarida filmlar ishlab chiqarish Pathe (AQSh) va Sesil B. De Mille KAO nazorati ostida birlashgan edi. 1928 yil boshida Patening prezidentligini boshlagan KAO bosh menejeri Jon J. Murdok, studiyani De Milening kompaniyasi bilan birlashtirishda maslahatchi sifatida Kennediga murojaat qildi, Ishlab chiqaruvchilarning tarqatish korporatsiyasi (PDC). Bu Sarnoff va Kennedining izlagan munosabatlari edi.[3][4][b]

Kennedi yordam so'rab murojaat qilgan yana bir studiyani - "First National" ni "Fotofon" jabhasiga olib kirishga urinishdan so'ng, RCA orqaga qaytishga tayyor edi: kompaniya Kennedining aktsiyalarini FBO va KAO teatr biznesida sotib oldi. 1928 yil 23 oktyabrda RCA Sarnoff boshqaruv kengashi raisi bo'lgan "Radio-Keyt-Orpheum Corp." xolding kompaniyasi tashkil etilganligini e'lon qildi. Birlashtirilgan kompaniyalardagi rahbarlik lavozimlaridan voz kechgan Kennedi Patheni RKOdan ajratib turdi va uning shaxsiy nazorati ostida edi.[3][5] RCA RKO aktsiyadorlik jamiyatining 22 foiz ulushiga egalik qildi (30-yillarning boshlarida uning ulushi 60 foizgacha ko'tariladi).[6] 1929 yil 25 yanvarda FBO sobiq vitse-prezidenti Jozef I. Shnitser boshchiligidagi yangi kompaniyaning ishlab chiqarish qo'li RKO Productions Inc.[7] Bir hafta o'tgach, u "Radio Pictures" savdo belgisiga ariza topshirdi.[8] Keyingi yili kino biznesidan chiqib ketmoqchi bo'lgan Kennedi 1930 yil oxirida RKO undan Pateni sotib olishni rejalashtirgan. 1931 yil 29-yanvarda Pathe o'zining shartnoma o'yinchilari bilan taniqli kinoxronika ishi va Culver City studiyasi va orqa tomoni, RKO tarkibiga qo'shildi, chunki Kennedi o'zining yaratilishida muhim rol o'ynagan kompaniyadagi so'nggi aktsiyalarini sotib yubordi.[9]

Golden Age studiyasi

Dastlabki yillar

Rio Rita (1929), avval RKO uchun xit (keyinchalik "Radio Pictures" bayrog'i ostida filmlar chiqarildi)

Gollivuddagi asosiy FBO studiyasi texnologik jihatdan qayta tiklangan bo'lsa-da, RKO Pathe bilan birgalikda FBO kichik korxonasida ishlab chiqarishni boshladi. Nyu-York shahri.[10] Ishlab chiqarish uchun mas'ul bo'lgan Uilyam LeBaron, FBOda xuddi shu lavozimni egallagan. Yangi kompaniyaning ikkita birinchi versiyasi musiqiy edi: melodramatik Sinxronizatsiya, aslida FBO RKO sifatida birlashtirilgunga qadar otishni yakunlagan, premyerasi 1929 yil 29 martda bo'lib o'tgan.[11] Komediya Ko'cha qizi debyuti 30-iyul. Bu RKO-ning birinchi "rasmiy" prodyuseri va Gollivudda suratga olingan birinchi film sifatida taqdim etildi.[12][c] Keyin bir nechta bema'ni rasmlar paydo bo'ldi, ammo studiyaning birinchi asosiy hitlari yana musiqiy bo'ldi. RKO dabdabali narsalarga katta mablag 'sarfladi Rio Rita, shu jumladan bir qator Texnik rang ketma-ketliklar. Sentabr oyida ochilgan obzorlarni tomosha qilish uchun yilning eng yaxshi rasmlari o'nligiga kirdi Kundalik film.[13] Kino tarixchisi Richard Barrios bunga "Brodvey musiqiy filmining birinchi yoshi" ni boshlaganligi bilan ishonadi.[14] Yil oxiriga kelib, RKO qo'shimcha ishlab chiqarish quvvatidan foydalangan - bu besh yuz gektar maydon yaqinda egallab olingan Encino ichida San-Fernando vodiysi kabi kinoteatr tashqi va keng ko'lamli stendlar uchun,[15] AKA; RKO Encino kinokompaniyasi.

RKO o'zining birinchi yilida o'n ikkita funktsiyadan iborat cheklangan slanetsini chiqardi; 1930 yilda bu ko'rsatkich yigirma to'qqizdan ikki baravar ko'paydi.[16] Dastlab "RKO Productions Inc" va "RKO Distributing Corp." alohida xujalik sub'ektlari sifatida tashkil etilgan bo'lib, iyul oyiga kelib studiya yangi, birlashgan "RKO Radio Pictures Inc" ga o'tishni boshladi.[17] Rag'batlantirildi Rio Rita'muvaffaqiyat bilan RKO Technicolor ketma-ketligini o'z ichiga olgan bir nechta qimmat musiqiy filmlarni yaratdi Diksiana va Kemani urish, ham ssenariy, ham rejissyor, kabi Rio Rita, tomonidan Lyuter Rid.[18] Boshqa yirik studiyalardan o'rnak olib, RKO o'zining musiqiy asarini yaratishni rejalashtirgan edi revue, Radio shov-shuvlari. Bugungi kunga qadar studiyaning eng g'ayrioddiy mahsuloti sifatida targ'ib qilingan va u butunlay Technicolor-da suratga olinishi kerak edi.[19] Loyihadan voz kechildi, ammo jamoatchilikning musiqiy musiqaga bo'lgan didi vaqtincha pasayib ketdi. 1929 yildagi oltmishdan ortiq Gollivud musiqasi va keyingi yili saksondan oshiq musiqiy asarlarning soni 1931 yilda o'n birga tushdi.[20] RKO majburiy ravishda qoldi: u hali ham Technicolor bilan o'z tizimi bilan yana ikkita xususiyat ishlab chiqarish uchun shartnoma tuzgan. Vaziyatni murakkablashtirgan holda, tomoshabinlar Gollivudning yirik studiyalarining bunday asarlari tanazzulga uchraganligi sababli rangni bir muncha vaqt ijobiy bo'lmagan musiqiy janr bilan bog'lashdi. O'z majburiyatlarini bajargan holda, RKO ikkita "Technicolor" rasmlarini ishlab chiqardi, Yugurish va Fanni Fuli O'zi (ikkalasi 1931), musiqiy ketma-ketliklarni o'z ichiga olmaydi. Muvaffaqiyat ham bo'lmagan.[21]

AQSh iqtisodiyoti asos solgan paytda ham, RKO teatrdan so'ng teatr sotib olib, ko'rgazma zanjiriga qo'shilish uchun sarf-xarajatlarni boshdan kechirdi. 1930 yil oktyabrda kompaniya Nyu-Yorkning 50 foiz aksiyasini sotib oldi Van Beuren multfilmlar va jonli shortilarga ixtisoslashgan studiya.[22] Tez orada RKO ishlab chiqarish jadvali yiliga qirq funktsiyadan oshib ketdi, "Radio Pictures" va 1931 yil qo'shilishidan keyin qisqa vaqt ichida "RKO Pathé" nomi bilan chiqdi. Cimarron LeBaron tomonidan ishlab chiqarilgan (1931), RKO-ning g'olib bo'lgan yagona ishlab chiqaruvchisi bo'ladi "Eng yaxshi film" uchun Oskar mukofoti; Shunga qaramay, uni ishlab chiqarish uchun 1,4 million dollar sarflangan, bu asl ichki chiqarishda pul yo'qotgan.[23][d] Buning eng mashhur RKO yulduzi oldindan kod davr edi Irene Dunne debyutini 1930 yilgi musiqiy filmning etakchisi sifatida qilgan Teri terish va butun o'n yil davomida studiyada bosh rol o'ynagan.[24] Boshqa yirik ijrochilar ham kiritilgan Djoel Makkrea, Rikardo Kortez, Dolores del Río va Meri Astor. Richard Diks, Oskar nomzodi uning etakchi ko'rsatkichi uchun Cimarron, RKO kutish vazifasini bajaradi B filmi 1940 yillarning boshlariga qadar yulduz.[25] Komediya jamoasi Bert Uiler va Robert Vulsi, ko'pincha ixtirochilar bilan janjallashishadi Doroti Li, yillar davomida bankning asosiy tayanchi edi.[26] Konstans Bennet, Enn Xarding va Xelen o'n ikkita Pate bilan birga keldi.[27] Pathé sotib olish, uzoq muddatli istiqbolga o'zining fizikaviy inshootlari uchun himoyalangan sarmoyalar bo'lishiga qaramay, yangi paydo bo'lgan RKO tomonidan qoplanadigan yana bir katta xarajat bo'ldi, ayniqsa, Pathening aktsiyalarining narxi sotib olishdan oldin ba'zi bir moliyalashtirish natijasida sun'iy ravishda oshirilgan edi.[28] RKO tarkibidagi bir yarim yildan ko'proq vaqt o'tgach, Pathé ishlab chiqarish birligi sifatida tarqatib yuborildi.[29]

Selznik boshchiligidagi muvaffaqiyat

King Kong (1933), Gollivudning ajoyib tomoshalaridan biri

Istisnolar kabi Cimarron va Rio Rita chetga, RKO mahsuloti asosan o'rtacha deb baholandi, shuning uchun 1931 yil oktyabrda Sarnoff yigirma to'qqiz yoshli yigitni yolladi Devid O. Selznik LeBaronni ishlab chiqarish boshlig'i lavozimiga tayinlash.[30] Qattiq xarajatlarni nazorat qilish choralarini amalga oshirish bilan bir qatorda, Selznik birlik ishlab chiqarish tizimini qo'llab-quvvatladi ishlab chiqaruvchilar individual filmlarning hukmronligi markaziy prodyuserlar tizimiga qaraganda ancha katta mustaqillik. "Zavod ishlab chiqarish tizimida siz direktorning individualizmini o'g'irlaysiz", dedi Selznik, "va bu ishlab chiqarilgan mahsulot sifatiga zarar etkazadigan ijodiy sanoatdir".[31] Birlik ishlab chiqarishni tashkil etish, uning taxmin qilishicha, shuningdek, xarajatlarni 30-40 foiz tejashga olib keladi.[31] Yangi tizim asosida filmlar yaratish uchun Selznik mukofotni kamera orqasida ishlaydigan xodimlarni jalb qildi, masalan direktor Jorj Kukor va prodyuser / rejissyor Merian C. Cooper va ishlab chiqaruvchiga berdi Pandro S. Berman, yigirma olti yoshda, tobora muhim loyihalar.[32] Selznik tezda studiyaning katta yulduzlaridan biri hisoblanadigan yosh aktrisani topdi va imzoladi, Katarin Xepbern. John Barrymore bir nechta esda qolarli chiqishlari uchun ham ro'yxatga olindi.[33] 1932 yil sentyabrdan kompaniyaning xususiyatlariga oid bosma reklama "RKO Radio Pictures" ning qayta ko'rib chiqilgan nomini namoyish etdi; Pathé nomi faqat kinostudiyalar va hujjatli filmlar uchun ishlatilgan.[e] O'sha yili Nyu-York shahridagi korporativ shtab-kvartirasi yangi RKO Building, an Art Deco birinchilardan biri bo'lgan osmono'par bino Rokfeller markazi ochiladigan inshootlar.[34]

Selznik RKO ishlab chiqarish rahbari sifatida atigi o'n besh oy davomida yangi korporativ prezident Merlin Eylsvort bilan ijodiy nazorat masalasida chiqqan mojaro tufayli iste'foga chiqdi.[35] Uning RKOdagi so'nggi harakatlaridan biri a ni tasdiqlash edi ekran sinovi o'ttiz uch yoshli, sochlari oqarib ketgan uchun Broadway ismli qo'shiq va raqsga tushgan odam Fred Aster.[36] Yodnomada Selznik shunday deb yozgan edi: "Men uning ulkan quloqlari va jag'ning yomon chizig'iga qaramay, uning jozibasi ... nihoyatda katta ekanligini his qilyapman".[37] Selznikning ishi keng mahorat bilan qabul qilingan: 1931 yilda, u kelguniga qadar, studiya jami byudjetda 16 million dollarga qirq ikkita spektakl yaratgan. 1932 yilda Selznik davrida qirq bitta xususiyat 10,2 million dollarga ishlab chiqarilgan bo'lib, sifati va mashhurligi aniq yaxshilandi.[38] U bir nechta yirik muvaffaqiyatlarni qo'llab-quvvatladi, shu jumladan Taloq to'g'risidagi qonun hujjati (1932), Kukor Xepbernning debyutini boshqargan va monumental King Kong (1933) - katta Merian Kuperning hayratga solganligi tufayli hayotga tatbiq etilgan uning yaratuvchisi maxsus effektlar ishi Uillis O'Brayen.[39] Shunday bo'lsa-da, kompaniyaning Selznikgacha bo'lgan kunlarini belgilab bergan moliyaviy moliya va ortiqcha narsalar RKOni ushbu shaklga bardosh berishga majbur qilmadi. Depressiya; 1933 yil boshida studiya cho'kib ketdi qabul qilish, undan 1940 yilgacha paydo bo'lmagan.[40]

Kuper boshqaruvda

Fred Aster va Zanjabil Rojers, RKO bilan birga eng yaxshi kassa yulduzlarining yillik ro'yxatini tuzgan yagona ijrochilar.[41] Top shapka (1935) 1934 yildan 1939 yilgacha bo'lgan sakkizta filmning uchinchisi.

Kuper Selznik ketganidan keyin ishlab chiqarish rahbari sifatida ish boshladi va Xepbern ishtirokidagi ikkita xitni nazorat qildi: Tong shon-sharafi (1933), buning uchun u uni yutdi birinchi Oskar va Kichkina ayollar (1933), rejissyor Cukorning aktrisa bilan ikkinchi hamkorligi.[42] O'z studiyasida ishlab chiqarilgan mahsulotlar orasida ikkinchisi kassalarning so'nggi o'n yillikdagi eng katta yutug'i bo'ldi.[43] Zanjabil Rojers Kuper uni etti yillik shartnomaga qo'shib, uni katta byudjetli musiqiy filmga qo'shganda, RKO uchun bir nechta kichik filmlarni suratga olgan edi. Rioga uchish (1933).[44] Rojers bilan bog'langan Fred Aster debyut filmida. To'rtinchi va beshinchi navbatda taqdim etilgan rasm ularni yulduzlarga aylantirdi.[45] Hermes Pan, filmning raqs rejissyorining yordamchisi, Astaire bilan keyingi faoliyati orqali Gollivudning etakchi xoreograflaridan biriga aylanadi.[46][47]

Bilan birga Columbia Pictures, RKO uylarning asosiy uylaridan biriga aylandi vidbol komediyasi. Kino tarixchisi Jeyms Xarvi ta'riflaganidek, ularning boy raqobatdoshlari bilan taqqoslaganda, bu ikki studiya "tajriba o'tkazishga ko'proq moyil edi, sahnada betartiblikka ko'proq bardoshli edi. Aynan shu ikkita kichik" mayor "da ... deyarli barcha ustun vintbol rejissyorlari. ularning muhim filmlarini qildilar -[Xovard] Xoks va [Gregori] La Kava va [Leo] Makkari va [Jorj] Stivens."[48] Nisbatan g'alati Uilyam A. Zayter studiyaning ushbu janrga qo'shgan birinchi muhim hissasini boshqargan, Dunyodagi eng boy qiz (1934).[49] Drama Inson qulligi (1934), rejissyorlik qilgan Jon Kromvel, edi Bette Devis birinchi katta muvaffaqiyat.[50] Stivensniki Elis Adams va rejissyor Jon Ford "s Axborot beruvchi ularning har biri 1935 yildagi eng yaxshi film Oskar-ga nomzod bo'lgan Eng yaxshi rejissyor Ford qo'lga kiritgan haykalcha RKO ishlab chiqarish uchun berilgan yagona haykal edi.[51] Axborot beruvchi 'yulduz, Viktor MakLaglen, shuningdek, Oskar mukofotini uyiga olib ketdi; u yigirma yil davomida studiya uchun o'nlab filmlarda qatnashgan.[52]

Soha rahbarlarining moliyaviy manbalari etishmasligi MGM, Birlamchi va Tulki, RKO Art Deco rejimida yuqori uslub bilan uni qoplagan davrda ko'plab rasmlarni chiqardi, bunga Astaire-Rogers kabi musiqiy asarlari misol bo'ldi. Geylar bilan ajrashish (1934), ularning birinchi juftligi qo'rg'oshin sifatida va Top shapka (1935).[53] Ushbu uslub uchun eng mas'uliyatli shaxslardan biri yana bir Selznikni yollash edi: Van Nest Polglase, RKO boshlig'i dizayn bo'limi deyarli o'n yil davomida.[54][55] Kino tarixchisi Jeyms Naremor RKO ni "asosan dizaynerlar studiyasi" deb ta'riflagan. Unda hech qachon muhim aktyorlar, yozuvchilar yoki rejissyorlarning otxonasi bo'lmagan, ammo ... u rassomlarga va maxsus effektlar bo'yicha texniklarga boy edi. Natijada, uning eng o'ziga xos rasmlari kuchli tarkibga ega edi. fantaziya elementi - o'ttizinchi yillarda viloyat bo'lgan dahshat hayoliyasi emas Umumjahon, lekin hayratlanarli va sarguzashtlarning hayoliyligi. "[56]

Guruh sifatida studiyaning hunarmandchilik bo'limlari sohadagi eng kuchli qismlardan biri edi.[54][57] Xaridor Valter Plunkett, FBO davrining oxiridan 1939 yil oxirigacha kompaniya bilan ishlagan, eng yaxshi deb tanilgan davr biznesdagi shkaf.[58] Sidni Sonders, studiyaning bo'yoq bo'limining innovatsion rahbari, muhim yutuqlarga javobgar edi orqa proektsiya sifat.[59] 1935 yil 13-iyun kuni RKO to'liq suratga olingan birinchi badiiy filmning premyerasini o'tkazdi uch chiziqli Technicolor, Beki Sharp. Film Kuper tomonidan asos solingan Pioneer Pictures filmi bilan suratga olingan bo'lib, u ikki yillik ishlab chiqarishni boshqarganidan keyin RKOdan ketgan va Jon Xey "Jok" Uitni, uning amakivachchasini olib kelgan Kornelius Vanderbilt Uitni; Kuper Whitneys-ni Technicolor biznesining katta qismini sotib olishga undaydi.[60] Tanqidchilar drama sifatida muvaffaqiyatsizlikka uchraganiga qaramay, Beki Sharp o'zining vizual yorqinligi va texnik tajribasi uchun keng maqtovga sazovor bo'ldi.[61] Shuningdek, RKO sanoatning etakchi rassomlari va hunarmandlarini ish bilan ta'minlagan. Studiyaning dastlabki kunlaridan 1935 yil oxirigacha, Maks Shtayner Ko'pgina tarixchilar tomonidan ovozli kinematografiyaning dastlabki yillarining eng nufuzli bastakori deb hisoblangan, 100 dan ortiq RKO filmlariga musiqa yaratgan.[47][62] Murray Spivak, studiyaning audio-maxsus effektlari bo'limi boshlig'i, qayta yozish texnologiyasidan foydalanishda birinchi yutuqlarga erishdi. King Kong.[63]

Briskin va Berman

1935 yil oktyabrda mulkchilik jamoasi kengayib, moliyalashtiruvchiga ega bo'ldi Floyd Odlum kompaniyadagi RCA hissasining 50 foizini sotib olgan sindikatga rahbarlik qilish; The Rokfeller birodarlar, shuningdek yirik aktsiyadorlar tobora ko'proq biznesga jalb qilinmoqdalar.[64] RKO Xepbernning karerasini qurishda muhim belgini qo'ldan boy bermasdan, asosiy yulduzlar Kari Grant va Barbara Stenvayk studiyaning ro'yxatiga qo'shildi - garchi Stenveyk u erda bo'lgan bir necha yil davomida juda kam muvaffaqiyatga erishadi. Grant, trend yulduzi edi, uning yulduzi hali ham o'sib borayotgan paytda, o'ziga xos bo'lmagan studiya shartnomalari asosida frilanser sifatida keng ishlagan ovozli davrning birinchi etakchilaridan biri edi.[65][f] Ann Sothern 1935-1937 yillarda RKO-ning ettita filmida rol o'ynagan va ular bilan besh marta juftlashgan Jin Raymond.[66]

Katarin Xepbern RKO uchun so'nggi film bomba edi. Bugun, Chaqaloqni tarbiyalash (1938) eng yaxshi vidbol komediyalaridan biri sifatida qaraladi.[67]

1936 yil oxirida yangi ishlab chiqarish boshlig'i Samuel Briskin tayinlangandan ko'p o'tmay, RKO animator bilan muhim tarqatish bitimini tuzdi. Uolt Disney (Natijada Van Beuren multfilm operatsiyalarini bukladi).[68] 1937 yildan 1956 yilgacha RKO Walt Disney-dan xususiyatlar va shortiklarni tarqatdi va u tashkil qilgan studiya, avval u Walt Disney Productions-ning Buena Vista Pictures Distribution bo'linmasini yaratib, distribyutorga aylandi. Dastlabki nashrida, Snow White va etti mitti (1937), Disneyning birinchi xususiyati bu davrda eng ko'p daromad ko'rgan film bo'ldi Xalqning tug'ilishi (1915) va Shamol bilan ketdim (1939).[69]

Bir necha yil oldin bosma brendlash o'zgarganidan so'ng, Pathé nonfiction yo'nalishidan tashqari, RKO filmlarida ochilish va yopilish logotiplari 1936 yilda "Radio Pictures" dan "RKO Radio Pictures" ga o'zgartirildi. 1937 yil fevral oyida Selznik, hozir etakchi mustaqil prodyuser, RKO ning Culver City studiyasini va Qirq akr, uzoq muddatli lizing sharti bilan ma'lum bo'lgan. Shamol bilan ketdim, uning nusxasi MGM, asosan u erda otib tashlangan.[70][g] O'zining markaziy Gollivud studiyasidan tashqari, endi RKO ishlab chiqarish uning atrofida aylandi Encino fermasi. Disney assotsiatsiyasi foydali bo'lgan bo'lsa-da, RKO-ning o'z mahsuloti sifati pasayib ketgan deb qaraldi va Briskin yil oxiriga kelib yo'qoldi.[71][72]

Oldingi uchta holatda to'ldirgan Pandro Berman ishlab chiqarish boshlig'i lavozimini vaqtincha bo'lmagan holda qabul qildi. Ma'lum bo'lishicha, u o'n yillik navbatga qadar ishni tark etishi kerak edi, ammo qisqa muddat davomida studiya tarixidagi eng taniqli filmlar paydo bo'ldi, shu jumladan Gunga Din, Grant va MakLaglen bilan; Sevgi ishi, rollarda Dunne va Charlz Boyer; va Notr-Damning hunchbigi (barchasi 1939).[73] Charlz Loton, kim hozirda ajoyib ijro etdi Kvazimodo ikkinchisida vaqti-vaqti bilan studiyaga qaytib, yana oltita RKO funktsiyasini sarlavha ostiga oldi.[74] Uchun Mureen O'Hara filmda o'zining amerikalik ekranida debyut qilgan, bu 1952 yilgacha RKO uchun yaratgan o'nta rasmning birinchisi edi.[75] Sakkizinchi marta Ginger Rojers bilan kostyum o'ynaganidan keyin Vernon va Irene qal'asi haqida hikoya (1939), Fred Astaire studiyani tark etdi.[76]

Studiyaning B G'arbiy davr yulduzi edi Jorj O'Brayen 1938-1940 yillarda o'n sakkizta RKO rasmini yaratgan. Nyu-Yorkdagi avliyo (1938) B xarakterli detektiv seriyasini muvaffaqiyatli namoyish etdi Simon Templar bu 1943 yilgacha davom etadi.[77] Uiler va Vulsi komediya seriyasi 1937 yilda Vulsi kasal bo'lib qolganida tugadi (u keyingi yili vafot etdi). Kabi mustaqil ishlab chiqarilgan funktsiyalarni chiqarish orqali RKO bo'shliqni to'ldirdi Doktor Kristian ketma-ket va Laurel va Hardy komediya Flying Deuces (1939).[78] Tez orada studiyada o'zining yangi B komediya yulduzi paydo bo'ldi Lupe Velez: Meksikalik qiz (1939) keyin Meksikaning Spitfire seriyasining ettita shov-shuvli qismi bo'lib o'tdi Leon Errol, 1940 yildan 1943 yilgacha.[77] Studiyaning texnik bo'limlari sanoat etakchilari sifatida o'zlarining obro'sini saqlab qolishdi; Vernon Uokerning maxsus effektlar bo'limi o'zining murakkab ishlatilishi bilan mashhur bo'ldi optik printer va hayotiy mot ish, bu 1941-yillarning eng yuqori darajasiga ko'tariladigan san'at Fuqaro Keyn.[79]

Keyn va Sheferning muammolari

Orson Uells ning bosh rolida Fuqaro Keyn (1941), ko'pincha hamma vaqtlarning eng buyuk filmi sifatida tilga olinadi.[80]

Pan Berman o'zining birinchi ekran kreditini 1925 yilda o'n to'qqiz yoshida olgan edi direktor yordamchisi FBO-da Yarim tunda Molli.[81] U 1939 yil dekabrda studiya prezidenti bilan siyosiy to'qnashuvlardan so'ng RKOdan ketgan Jorj J. Shefer, o'tgan yili Rokfeller tomonidan tanlangan va Sarnoff tomonidan qo'llab-quvvatlangan.[82] Berman ketishi bilan Shefer aslida ishlab chiqarish boshlig'i bo'ldi, ammo boshqa erkaklar, shu jumladan sobiq rahbar ham sanoat tsenzurasi kengashi, Jozef I. Breen - bu rolni nominal ravishda to'ldirdi.[83] Sheefer o'zining falsafasini yangi studiya shiori bilan e'lon qildi, "Sifatli rasmlar ustun narxda", RKO filmlari tarqatiladigan mustaqil prodyuserlarni ro'yxatdan o'tkazishni xohladi.[84] 1941 yilda studiya Gollivuddagi eng obro'li mustaqillardan biriga aylandi Semyuel Goldvin ishlab chiqarishlari. Studiya tomonidan chiqarilgan Goldwyn-ning dastlabki ikkita surati juda muvaffaqiyatli bo'ldi: Kichkina tulkilar, rejissor Uilyam Uayler va Bette Devis bosh rollarni ijro etib, to'rtta Oskar nominatsiyasini qo'lga kiritdi,[85] Xovard Xoks rejissyorligida Olov to'pi nihoyat olib keldi Barbara Stenvayk RKO bayrog'i ostida hit. Biroq, Sheefer Goldwyn uchun juda qulay shartlarga rozi bo'ldi, chunki studiyada uning filmlaridan pul ishlash imkonsiz edi.[86] Devid O. Selznik 1941 yilda RKO-ning ikkita surati uchun o'zining etakchi shartnoma bo'yicha direktorini ijaraga oldi: Alfred Xitkokning Janob va xonim Smit kamtarona muvaffaqiyat edi va Shubha Oscar mukofotiga sazovor bo'lgan navbatdagi muhimroq Joan Fonteyn.[h]

O'sha may oyida yigirma besh yoshli yulduz va rejissyorni sovg'a qildi Orson Uells film ustidan deyarli to'liq ijodiy nazorat, deb e'lon qildi RKO Fuqaro Keyn.[men] Kuchli obzorlarga ochilib, eng buyuk filmlardan biri sifatida e'tirof etilsa-da, u o'sha paytda pul yo'qotib, filmlarning g'azabini keltirdi. Xerst RKO-dagi gazeta zanjiri.[87] Keyingi yil Welles's tijorat muvaffaqiyatsizligini ko'rdi The Magnificent Ambersons - o'xshaydi Keyn, tanqidiy maqtovga sazovor bo'lgan va ortiqcha byudjet - va uning bekor qilingan hujjatli filmining qimmat sharmandaligi Hammasi haqiqat.[88] Uellesning uchta ishlab chiqarishi birlashib, RKO xazinasidan 2 million dollarni chiqarib yubordi, bu 1940 yilda 1 million dollarlik defitsit va 1941 yilda nominal foyda 500 000 dollardan biroz ko'proq bo'lgan korporatsiya uchun katta pul.[j] RKO-ning boshqa ko'plab badiiy shuhratparast rasmlari ham kassada o'lmoqda va u yirik yulduz bilan ham so'nggi eksklyuziv shartnomasini yo'qotmoqda. Rojers, 1941 yilda "Oskar" yutganidan so'ng, o'tgan yilgi faoliyati uchun Kitti Foyl, Grant kabi frilanser shartnomasi uchun tuzilgan; 1943 yildan so'ng, u o'n uch yil o'tgach, yana bitta RKO ishlab chiqarishida paydo bo'ladi.[89] 1942 yil 17-iyunda Shefer iste'foga chiqishga ariza berdi.[90] U zaiflashgan va notinch studiyadan chiqib ketdi, ammo RKO burchakka burilmoqchi edi. Ikkinchi Jahon Urushining kassa portlashi va yangi rahbariyat tomonidan boshqarilgan RKO keyingi yarim o'n yillikda kuchli qaytishga erishadi.[91]

Koerner ostida qaytib

1942 yil iyun oyining oxiriga kelib Floyd Odlum kompaniyadagi boshqaruv ulushini o'z qo'liga oldi Atlas korporatsiyasi, Rokfeller va Sarnoffni chetga surib. Charlz Koerner, RKO teatr zanjirining sobiq rahbari va Odlum bilan ittifoqdosh, Shefer ketishidan bir muncha vaqt oldin bosh prodyuser unvonini olgan edi.[92] Sheefer ketgach, Koerner aslida bu ishni bajarishi mumkin edi. "Genius o'rnida shoumanlik: RKOda yangi bitim" yangi korporativ shiori, umuman Shefeferning badiiy ambitsiyalari va xususan Uellesga homiylik qilganligi haqidagi snaypni e'lon qilib,[93] Koerner 1946 yil fevralida vafotigacha studiyaga juda zarur bo'lgan barqarorlikni keltirdi.[94] RKO boyliklarining o'zgarishi deyarli zudlik bilan sodir bo'ldi: korporativ foyda 1942 yildagi 736 241 dollardan (teatr bo'limi studiyaning 2,34 million dollar kamomadini qoplaydi), keyingi yili 6,96 million dollarga ko'tarildi.[95] Rokfellerlar o'z aktsiyalarini sotdilar va 1943 yil boshida RCA kompaniyadagi so'nggi aktsiyalaridan ham voz kechdi va Devid Sarnoffning studiya bilan aloqalarini uzdi, bu asosan uning kontseptsiyasi edi.[96] 1944 yil iyun oyida RKO yangi vosita uchun tarkibni taqdim etish uchun RKO Television Corporation televizion sho''ba korxonasini yaratdi. RKO televizor uchun ishlab chiqaradigan birinchi yirik studiyaga aylandi Tez gapiring, janob, Nyu-Yorkdagi RKO-Pathé studiyalarida suratga olingan va DuMont tarmoqning Nyu-York stantsiyasi, WABD, 1944 yil 18-dekabrda. Meksikalik ishbilarmon bilan hamkorlikda Emilio Azkaraga Vidaurreta, RKO tashkil etildi Estudios Churubusco yilda Mexiko 1945 yilda.[97]

Kari Grant va Ingrid Bergman yilda Mashhur (1946). RKO qo'shma mahsulot ishlab chiqarishda 1 million dollardan ko'proq foyda ko'rdi Devid O. Selznik Vanguard filmlari.[98]

RKO tobora xavfsizroq bo'lgan joyda, Koerner chiroyli byudjetli, yulduzlarga asoslangan xususiyatlarni ishlab chiqarishni ko'paytirishga intildi. Biroq, kengaytirilgan shartnomalar bo'yicha studiyaning yagona yirik yulduzlari Grant bo'lib, uning xizmatlari Columbia Pictures va O'Hara Twentieth Century-Fox bilan bo'lishgan.[99][100] Ichki yulduzlardan mahrum bo'lgan Koerner va Odlum boshchiligidagi vorislar boshqa studiyalar bilan o'zlarining eng buyuk ismlarini ijaraga berishni kelishib oldilar yoki tobora ko'payib borayotgan frilanserlardan birini qisqa muddatli ijaraga oldilar ".to'lash yoki o'ynash "kelishuvlar. Shunday qilib, RKO tomonidan taqdim etilgan qirqinchi yillarning o'rtalari va oxirlari rasmlari Bing Krosbi, Genri Fonda va boshqa shartnomalar muddati uzaytirilgan studiya narxlari doirasidan tashqarida bo'lganlar.[101] Jon Ueyn 1943 yillarda paydo bo'lgan Xonim imkoniyat topadi dan qarz olayotganda Respublika rasmlari; tez orada u RKO bilan muntazam ish olib bordi va studiya uchun yana to'qqizta film suratga oldi.[102] Gari Kuper Goldwyn tomonidan ishlab chiqarilgan RKO nashrlarida va keyinchalik International Pictures startapida paydo bo'ldi,[103] va Klodet Kolbert bir qator RKO qo'shma mahsulotlarida suratga tushgan.[104] Ingrid Bergman, Selznikdan ijaraga olingan, aksincha yulduzcha Bing Krosbi yilda Aziz Maryam qo'ng'iroqlari (1945), rejissyor bilan nusxa ko'chirish Leo Makkari. Yilning eng yaxshi kassalari filmi RKO uchun 3,7 million dollar foyda keltirdi, bu kompaniya tarixidagi eng katta daromad.[105] Bergman nusxada qaytdi Mashhur (1946) va Stromboli (1950) va mustaqil ravishda ishlab chiqarilgan Joan of Arc (1948).[106] Freelancing Randolf Skott 1943 yildan 1948 yilgacha har yili bir yirik RKO versiyasida paydo bo'ldi.[107]

Xuddi shu tarzda, ko'plab etakchi rejissyorlar ushbu davrda RKO uchun bitta yoki bir nechta filmlar, shu jumladan Alfred Xitkok bilan yana bir bor, Mashhurva Jan Renoir, bilan Bu yer meniki (1943), Laughton va O'Hara-ni birlashtirib, va Plyajdagi ayol (1947).[108] RKO va Orson Uelles bir-birlari bilan uchrashishdi Begona (1946), u o'zi suratga olgan hamda rejissyorlik qilgan mustaqil film. Keyinchalik Uelles bu filmni o'zining eng yomon filmi deb ataydi, ammo u birinchi marta daromad keltiradigan yagona u yaratgan film edi.[109] 1946 yil dekabrda studiya chiqdi Frank Kapra "s Bu ajoyib hayot; oxir-oqibat u Gollivudning Oltin asrning eng buyuk filmlaridan biri sifatida tan olinishi kerak edi, ammo o'sha paytda u RKO uchun yarim million dollardan ko'proq zarar ko'rdi.[110] Jon Fordniki Qochqin (1947) va Fort Apache (1948), studiya egaligi yana qo'llar almashinishidan oldin paydo bo'lgan va keyinchalik paydo bo'lgan U sariq lentani kiyib olgan (1949) va Vagon ustasi (1950); to'rttasi ham Ford va RKO bitiruvchisi Merian C. Cooper tomonidan boshqariladigan RKO va Argosy kompaniyalari o'rtasida ishlab chiqarilgan.[111] 1940 yillarda RKO bilan uzoq muddatli shartnoma tuzgan rejissyorlar orasida eng yaxshi tanilgan Edvard Dmitrik, kim birinchi marta juda foydali ekanligiga e'tibor qaratdi Gitlerning bolalari (1943). 205 ming dollarlik byudjyetda suratga olinib, uni "Katta beshlik" studiyasining eng quyi kvartiliga joylashtirib, yilning eng yirik Gollivud o'ntaligiga kirdi.[112][k] Dmytryk tomonidan suratga olingan yana bir arzon narxlardagi urush mavzusidagi film, Chiqayotgan quyosh ortida, bir necha oydan so'ng chiqarilgan, xuddi shunday foydali edi.[43][113]

B filmlariga e'tiboringizni qarating

Kam byudjetli kino san'ati: Men zombi bilan yurdim (1943), tomonidan ishlab chiqarilgan Val Levton va rejissyor Jak Turne

Boshqa Big Five studiyalariga qaraganda ancha ko'p, RKO o'z jadvalini to'ldirishda B rasmlariga ishongan. Masalan, 1944 yilda RKO tomonidan chiqarilgan o'ttiz bitta xususiyatdan o'ntasi 200 ming dollardan kam byudjetga ega bo'lgan, o'n ikkitasi 200-500 ming dollar oralig'ida bo'lgan va faqat to'qqiztasi qimmatroq. Aksincha, boshqa to'rtta eng yaxshi studiyalar tomonidan namoyish etilgan aksariyat filmlarning aksariyati yarim million dollardan ko'proq mablag 'ajratilgan.[114] B rasmlarga e'tibor studiyaning moliyaviy xavfini chekladi; mukofot olish imkoniyatini cheklab qo'ygan bo'lsa-da (Dmytrykning g'ayrioddiy to'ntarishlari bir chetga), RKO o'zining "A" filmlariga qaraganda ishlab chiqaradigan va arzon mahsuloti bilan ko'proq foyda keltirgan.[6] Studiyaning kam byudjetli filmlari yangi rejissyorlar uchun ham, shu qatorda, o'qitish imkoniyatlarini ham taqdim etdi Mark Robson, Robert Hikmat va Entoni Mann.[115][116] Robson va Uayz prodyuser bilan birinchi rejissyorlik topshiriqlarini oldilar Val Levton, uning ixtisoslashgan B dahshat bo'limiga tajribali rejissyor ham kiritilgan Jak Turne. Lyuton birligining kayfiyati, atmosferadagi ishi - kabi filmlar bilan namoyish etilgan Mushuklar (1942), Men zombi bilan yurdim (1943) va Badanni tortib oluvchi (1945) - endi juda qadrlanadi.[115][117] Richard Diks o'zining uzoq muddatli karerasini 1943 yilda "Levton" ishlab chiqarishi bilan yakunladi Arvoh kemasi.[118] Tim Xolt RKO ning qirq oltita "B" g'arbiy qismida va umuman studiya uchun ellikdan ortiq filmlarda qatnashgan davrning kovboy yulduzi edi.[119] 1940 yilda, Chester Lauck va Norris Goff ularning mashhur kulgili belgilarini olib kelishdi Lum va Abner oltita film uchun radiodan RKOga.[120] The Falcon detektivlar seriyasi 1941 yilda boshlangan; Avliyo va Falcon shu qadar o'xshash ediki, Avliyo yaratuvchisi Lesli Charteris RKOni sudga bergan.[121] Falcon birinchi marta o'ynagan Jorj Sanders, Avliyo sifatida besh marta paydo bo'lgan. U to'rtta Falcon filmidan keyin bosh egib, uning o'rnini akasi egalladi, Tom Konvey. Serial 1946 yilda tugashidan oldin Konveyda to'qqizta film namoyish etilgan. Jonni Vaysmuller oltitasida rol o'ynagan Tarzan 1943 yildan 1948 yilgacha RKO uchun rasmlar almashtirilgunga qadar Leks Barker.[66]

Noir filmi, quyi byudjetlar o'zlariga qarz berib, studiyada uy uslubiga aylandi, haqiqatan ham RKO B Uchinchi qavatda notanish (1940) keng miqyosda noir klassik davrini boshlovchi sifatida qaraladi.[122] Uning operator, Nikolas Musuraka 1920 yilda FBOda boshlangan va 1954 yilgacha RKO bilan birga bo'lgan, klassik noir qiyofasini yaratishda asosiy rol o'ynaydi.[123] Dizayn rahbari Albert D'Agostino 1941 yilda Van Nest Polglase o'rnini egallagan yana bir uzoq muddatli - va badiiy rahbar Valter Keller, bo'limdagi boshqalar bilan birga, masalan, badiiy direktorlar Kerol Klark va Jek Okey va dekorator Darrell Silvera, shunga o'xshash kreditlar.[124] 1940-yillarning studiyasida tuzilgan kontrakt ishtirokchilari ro'yxati odatdagi oddiy odamlar bilan to'ldirildi: Robert Mitchum (katta yulduz maqomini tugatgan) va Robert Rayan har biri RKO uchun o'ntadan kam bo'lmagan kino nayranglarini yaratdi.[125] Gloriya Grahame, Jeyn Greer va Lourens Tirni sohada ham taniqli studiya o'yinchilari edi.[126] Frilanser Jorj Raft ikkita noir xitida rol ijro etdi: Jonni Anxel (1945) va Nokturn (1946).[127] Tourneur, Musuraca, Mitchum va Greer, D'Agostinoning dizayn guruhi bilan birgalikda A-byudjetga qo'shilishdi. O'tmishdan (1947), endi barcha kino nayranglarining eng buyuklaridan biri hisoblanadi.[128] Nikolas Rey rejissyorlik faoliyatini noir bilan boshladi Ular tunda yashaydilar (1948), u RKO uchun juda yaxshi ko'rilgan filmlarning birinchisi.[129]

HUAC va Xovard Xyuz

Yong'in (1947) xit edi, ammo Amerikaning biron bir studiyasi yollamaydi qora ro'yxatga kiritilgan direktor Edvard Dmitrik yana ismlarni aytguncha HUAC 1951 yilda.[130] Ishlab chiqaruvchi Adrian Skott yigirma yil davomida boshqa ekran krediti olmagan bo'lar edi. U buni ko'rmasdan o'ldi.[131]

RKO va umuman kino sanoatida 1946 yildagi eng daromadli yil bo'ldi. RKO tomonidan ishlab chiqarilgan Goldwyn mahsuloti, Bizning hayotimizning eng yaxshi yillari, o'n yillikdagi eng muvaffaqiyatli Gollivud filmi bo'ldi va o'sha yili g'olib bo'ldi "Eng yaxshi film" uchun Oskar mukofoti.[132] Ammo sohaning amaldagi biznes modelining huquqiy holati tobora ko'proq shubha ostiga olinmoqda: AQSh Oliy sudi ichida hukmronlik qildi Bigelow va RKO kompaniyaning zararlari uchun javobgar bo'lganligi monopoliyaga qarshi qonunlar mustaqil kino uyiga kirishni rad etganligi uchun birinchi filmlar - bu "Katta beshlik" ning umumiy amaliyoti.[133] Floyd Odlum foyda bilan yuqori nuqtada, kompaniyadagi aktsiyalarining taxminan 40 foizini bir qator investitsiya firmalariga sotish orqali naqd qildi.[134] Koerner vafotidan so'ng, Radio-Keyt-Orpheum prezidenti N.Peter Ratvon va RKO Radio Pictures prezidenti Ned Depinet o'zaro lavozimlarni almashishgan, Depinet Nyu-Yorkdagi va Ratvondagi korporativ ofislariga ko'chib o'tib, Gollivudga ko'chib ketishgan va doimiy o'rnini egallab turgan paytda ishlab chiqarish boshlig'i sifatida ishlashgan. Koernerni qidirdi. 1947 yilning birinchi kunida prodyuser va "Oskar" mukofotiga ssenariy muallifi Dor Shari, Selznikdan ijaraga olingan studiyada ishlagan, rolni o'z zimmasiga oldi.[135]

RKO o'zining so'nggi yutuqlariga asoslanib yaxshi holatda paydo bo'ldi, ammo bu yil butun Gollivud uchun bir qator yoqimsiz xabarchilarni keltirdi. Buyuk Britaniya hukumati chet elda ishlab chiqarilgan filmlarga 75 foiz soliq solgan; shu kabi musodara qilingan soliqlar va boshqa mamlakatlar tomonidan qabul qilingan kvota to'g'risidagi qonunlar bilan bir qatorda, bu tashqi daromadlarning keskin pasayishiga olib keldi.[136][137] Urushdan keyingi tashriflar kutilganidan ancha tezroq ko'tarildi va televidenie tomoshabinlarning qiziqishi uchun raqobatdosh bo'lib chiqdi. Kengash bo'ylab foyda tushdi - 1946 yildan 1947 yilgacha Gollivud studiyalari uchun 27 foizga pasayish.[138] Sifatida tanib bo'ladigan hodisa Makkartizm kuchini oshirayotgan edi, va oktyabr oyida, Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlari faoliyati qo'mitasi (HUAC) kinematografiya sohasida kommunizmni tinglashni boshladi. RKO-ning eng yaxshi iste'dodlaridan ikkitasi - Dmitriy va prodyuser Adrian Skott, hamkorlik qilishdan bosh tortdi. Natijada, ular RKO tomonidan ushbu shartlar asosida ishdan bo'shatilgan Valdorf bayonoti, yirik studiyalarning "har qanday buzg'unchilikni yo'q qilish" va'dasi. Scott, Dmytryk va yana sakkiz kishi, shuningdek, HUACga qarshi chiqishgan - bu nomni olgan Gollivud o'nligi - edi qora ro'yxatga kiritilgan sanoat bo'ylab.[139] Ajablanarlisi shundaki, studiyaning bu yilgi eng katta muvaffaqiyati Yong'in, Scott-Dmytryk filmi.[140] Odlum kino biznesidan chiqish vaqti keldi degan xulosaga keldi va u qolgan RKO aktsiyalarini - muomaladagi aktsiyalarning taxminan 25 foizini bozorga chiqardi.[141] Yil boshlanishidan oldin, Pathé brendidagi kinostudiya Warner Bros.ga sotildi.[137] Uning ishlashi uchun Fermerning qizi (1947), Selznikning "Vanguard Films" nusxasi, Loretta Young g'olib bo'ldi Eng yaxshi aktrisa Oskar keyingi mart. Bu RKO filmi uchun so'nggi eng katta Oskar mukofotiga aylanadi.[142]

1948 yil may oyida ekssentrik aviatsiya magnat va vaqti-vaqti bilan kino prodyuseri Xovard Xyuz ingliz kinomagnatini ortda qoldirib, kompaniya boshqaruvini qo'lga kiritdi J. Artur Rank Odlumning qiziqishini sotib oluvchi sifatida.[143] Xyuz sotib oldi Atlas korporatsiyasi 8,825,000 dollarga 929,000 dona aktsiyalar. Xyuz zudlik bilan 700 nafar ishchini ishdan bo'shatdi va yiliga o'rtacha 30 ta suratga ega bo'lgan RKO ishlab chiqarish Xyuz egallagan birinchi yili 9 taga kamaydi.[144] During Hughes's tenure, RKO suffered its worst years since the early 1930s, as his capricious management style took a heavy toll. Production chief Schary quit almost immediately due to his new boss's interference and Rathvon soon followed.[145] Within weeks of taking over, Hughes had dismissed three-fourths of the work force; production was virtually shut down for six months as the conservative Hughes shelved or canceled several of the "message pictures " that Schary had backed. Once shooting picked up again, Hughes quickly became notorious for meddling in minute production matters, particularly the presentation of actresses he favored.[146] All of the Big Five saw their profits dwindle in 1948—from Fox, down 11 percent, to Loew's/MGM, down 62 percent—but at RKO they virtually vanished: from $5.1 million in 1947 to $0.5 million, a drop of 90 percent.[147] The production-distribution end of the RKO business, now deep in the red, would never make a profit again.[148]

Offscreen, Robert Mitchum's arrest and conviction for marijuana possession—he would serve two months in jail—was widely assumed to mean career death for RKO's most promising young star, but Hughes surprised the industry by announcing that his contract was not endangered.[149] Of much broader significance, Hughes decided to get the jump on his Big Five competitors by being the first to settle the federal government's antitrust suit against the major studios, which had won a crucial Supreme Court ruling in Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlari va Paramount Pictures, Inc. Ostida rozilik to'g'risidagi farmon he signed, Hughes agreed to dissolve the old parent company, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp., and split RKO's production-distribution business and its exhibition chain into two entirely separate corporations—RKO Pictures Corp. and RKO Theatres Corp.—with the obligation to promptly sell off one or the other. While Hughes delayed the divorcement procedure until December 1950 and didn't actually sell his stock in the theater company for another three years, his decision to acquiesce was one of the crucial steps in the collapse of classical Hollywood's studiya tizimi.[150]

Turmoil under Hughes

Robert Mitchum, RKO's most prolific lead of the late 1940s and early 1950s,[99] costarred in Makao (1952) bilan Jeyn Rassel, who was personally contracted to Xovard Xyuz.[151] Direktor Yozef fon Sternberg 's work was combined with scenes shot by Nikolas Rey va Mel Ferrer.[152]

While Hughes's time at RKO was marked by dwindling production and a slew of expensive flops, the studio continued to turn out some well-received films under production chiefs Sid Rogell va Sam Bischoff, though both became fed up with Hughes's meddling and quit after less than two years. (Bischoff would be the last man to hold the job under Hughes.)[153] There were B noirs such as Oyna (1949), which turned into a hit,[154] va O'rnatish (1949), directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan, which won the Critic's Prize at the Kann kinofestivali.[155] Boshqa dunyodan kelgan narsa (1951), a science-fiction drama coproduced with Howard Hawks's Winchester Pictures, is seen as a classic of the genre.[156] In 1952, RKO put out two films directed by Fritz Lang, Rancho Notorious va Tungi to'qnashuv. The latter was a project of the renowned Jerri Uold –Norman Krasna production team, lured by Hughes from Warner Bros. with great fanfare in August 1950.[157]

The company also began a close working relationship with Ida Lupino. She starred in two suspense films with Robert Ryan—Nicholas Ray's Xavfli zaminda (1952, though shooting had been completed two years earlier) and Ehtiyot bo'ling, mening sevgilim (1952), a coproduction between RKO and Lupino's company, The Filmakers.[158] Of more historic note, Lupino was Hollywood's only female director during the period; of the five pictures The Filmakers made with RKO, Lupino directed three, including her now celebrated Hitch-Hiker (1953).[159] Exposing many moviegoers to Asian cinema for the first time, RKO distributed Akira Kurosava 's epochal Rashomon in the United States, sixteen months after its original 1950 Japanese release.[160] The only smash hits released by RKO in the 1950s came out during this period, but neither was an in-house production: Goldwyn's Xans Kristian Andersen (1952) was followed by Disney's Piter Pan (1953).[43][161]

In early 1952, Hughes fought off a lawsuit by screenwriter Pol Jarriko, who had been caught up in the latest round of HUAC hearings—Hughes had fired him and removed his name from the credits of Las-Vegasdagi voqea, then a recently released film noir starring one of his leading ladies at the studio, Jeyn Rassel. The studio owner subsequently ordered 100 RKO employees on "leave of absence" while he established a "security office" to oversee an ideological vetting system. "We are going to screen everyone in a creative or executive capacity", he declared. "The work of Communist sympathizers will not be used."[162] As more credits were expunged, some in the industry began to question whether Hughes's hunt for subversives served primarily as a convenient rationale for further curtailing production and trimming expenses.[163]

In September, Hughes and his corporate president, Ned E. Depinet, sold their RKO studio stock to a Chicago-based syndicate with no experience in the movie business; the syndicate's chaotic reign lasted until February 1953, when the stock and control were reacquired by Hughes.[164] The studio's net loss in 1952 was over $10 million, and shooting had taken place for just a single in-house production over the last five months of the year.[165] During the turmoil, Samuel Goldwyn ended his 11-year-long distribution deal with RKO. Wald and Krasna escaped their contracts and the studio as well. The deal that brought the team to RKO had called for them to produce sixty features over five years; in just shy of half that time, they succeeded in making four.[166] The Encino ranch shut down permanently in 1953 and the property was sold off.[167] In November, Hughes finally fulfilled his obligations under the 1948 consent decree, divesting RKO Theatres; Albert A. List purchased the controlling interest in the business and renamed it List Industries.[168] Hughes soon found himself the target of no fewer than five separate lawsuits filed by minority shareholders in RKO, accusing him of malfeasance in his dealings with the Chicago group and a wide array of acts of mismanagement. "RKO's contract list is down to three actors and 127 lawyers", quipped Dik Pauell.[169]

Looking to forestall the impending legal imbroglio, in early 1954 Hughes offered to buy out all of RKO's other stockholders.

Convinced that the studio was sinking, and after a dispute with Hughes over the distribution of his nature documentary series Haqiqiy hayot sarguzashtlari,[170] Walt Disney ended his arrangement with RKO and created his own distribution firm, Buena Vista rasmlari Distribution, Inc., as a wholly owned subsidiary.[171]

By the end of the year, at a cost of $23.5 million, Hughes had gained near-total control of RKO Pictures, becoming the first virtual (but not actual) sole owner of a studio since Hollywood's pioneer days. However, Floyd Odlum reemerged to block Hughes from acquiring the 95 percent ownership of RKO stock he needed to write off the company's losses against his earnings elsewhere. Hughes had reneged on his promise to give Odlum first option on buying the RKO theater chain when he divested it, and was now paying the price.[172] With negotiations between the two at a stalemate, in July 1955, Hughes turned around and sold RKO Pictures to the General Shinalar va rezina kompaniyasi 25 million dollarga.[173] For Hughes, this was the effective end of a quarter-century's involvement in the movie business. Historian Betty Lasky describes Hughes's relationship with RKO as a "systematic seven-year rape."[174]

General Tire and studio's demise

Jet uchuvchisi, a Hughes pet production launched in 1949. Shooting wrapped in May 1951, but it was not released until 1957 due to his interminable tinkering. RKO was by then out of the distribution business. Film tomonidan chiqarilgan Universal-International.[175]

In taking control of the studio, General Tire restored RKO's links to broadcasting. General Tire had bought the Yanki tarmog'i, a New England regional radio network, in 1943.[176] In 1950, it purchased the West Coast regional Don Lee Broadcasting System,[177] and two years later, the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, egasi ISH TV and radio stations in New York City.[178] The latter acquisition gave General Tire majority control of the O'zaro eshittirish tizimi, one of America's leading radio networks.[179] General Tire then merged its broadcasting interests into a new division, General Teleradio.[180]

Thomas O'Neil, son of General Tire's founder William O'Neil and chairman of the broadcasting group, saw that the company's new television stations, indeed all TV outlets, were in need of programming. With the purchase of RKO, the studio's library was his, and rights to the 742 films to which RKO retained clear title were quickly put up for sale. C&C Television Corp., a subsidiary of beverage maker Cantrell & Cochrane, won the bidding in December 1955. It was soon offering the films to independent stations in a package called "MovieTime USA".[181][182] RKO Teleradio Pictures—the new company created from the merger of General Teleradio and the RKO studio—retained the broadcast rights for the cities where it owned TV stations. By 1956, RKO's classic movies were playing widely on television, allowing many to see such films as Fuqaro Keyn birinchi marta. The $15.2 million RKO made on the deal convinced the other major studios that their libraries held profit potential—a turning point in the way Hollywood did business.[181][183]

The new owners of RKO made an initial effort to revive the studio, hiring veteran producer Uilyam Dozier to head production.[184][185] In the first half of 1956, the production facilities were as busy as they had been in a half-decade.[184][186] RKO Teleradio Pictures released Fritz Lang's final two American films, Shahar uxlayotgan paytda va Aqlli shubhadan tashqari (both 1956), but years of mismanagement had driven away many directors, producers, and stars.[123] The studio was also saddled with the last of the inflated B movies such as Janubiy Tinch okeanining marvaridi (1955) va Fathchi (1956) that enchanted Hughes.[187] The latter, starring John Wayne, was the biggest hit produced at the studio during the decade, but its $4.5 million in North American rentals did not come close to covering its $6 million cost.[43]

On January 22, 1957, RKO announced that it was closing its domestic distribution exchanges from February 1 with distribution to be taken over by Universal-International but it planned to retain foreign distribution and move production to its Pathe lot in Culver City.[188] After a year and a half without a notable success, General Tire shut down production at RKO for good at the end of January 1957. The Hollywood and Culver City facilities were sold later that year for $6.15 million to Desilu Productions, tegishli Desi Arnaz va Lyussil to'pi, who had been an RKO contract player from 1935 to 1942.[189] Desilu would be acquired by Fors ko'rfazi va g'arbiy sanoat in 1967 and merged into G+W's other production company, Paramount rasmlari; the former RKO Hollywood studio became home to Paramount Television (now CBS televizion studiyalari ), bu hozirgi kungacha saqlanib kelmoqda. The renovated Culver City studio is now owned and operated as an independent production facility.[190] Forty Acres, the Culver City backlot, was razed in the mid-1970s.[191] List Industries, the former RKO Theatres Corp., was acquired by Glen Alden Corp. in 1959. After Glen Alden's 1967 acquisition of the Stanley Warner theater group, the two chains were merged into RKO–Stanley Warner Theatres. Cinerama purchased the exhibition circuit from Glen Alden in 1971.[192]

The final RKO film, Verboten!, a coproduction with director Samuel Fuller 's Globe Enterprises, was released by Columbia Pictures 1959 yil mart oyida.[193] That same year, "Pictures" was stripped from the corporate identity; the holding company for General Tire's broadcasting operation and the few remaining motion picture assets was renamed RKO General.[194][l] In the words of scholar Richard B. Jewell, "The supreme irony of RKO's existence is that the studio earned a position of lasting importance in cinema history largely chunki of its extraordinarily unstable history. Since it was the weakling of Hollywood's 'majors,' RKO welcomed a diverse group of individualistic creators and provided them...with an extraordinary degree of freedom to express their artistic idiosyncrasies.... [I]t never became predictable and it never became a factory."[195] By July 5, 1957, RKO's Japanese distribution arm, RKO Japan, Ltd., was sold to Disney and British Commonwealth Film Corporation. In allocating the foreign film licenses to RKO Japan, Disney would use five of them and Commonwealth eight more.[196]

RKO General

Asosiy maqola: RKO General

One of North America's major radio and television broadcasters from the 1950s through the late 1980s, RKO General traces its roots to the 1943 purchase of the Yanki tarmog'i tomonidan General Tire. In 1952, the company united its newly expanded broadcasting interests into a division dubbed General Teleradio. With the tire manufacturer's acquisition of the RKO film studio in 1955, its media businesses were brought together under the rubric of RKO Teleradio Pictures. In 1959, following the breakup of the movie studio, the media division was given the name it would operate under for the next three decades, RKO General. In addition to its broadcasting activities, RKO General was also the holding company for many of General Tire's (and, after its parent company's reorganization, GenCorp 's) other noncore businesses, including soft-drink bottling, hotel enterprises, and, for seventeen years, the original Frontier Airlines.[197]

The RKO General radio lineup included some of the highest rated, most influential popular music stations in North America. 1965 yil may oyida, KHJ (AM) in Los Angeles introduced the Boss Radio ning o'zgarishi eng yaxshi 40 format. The restrictive programming style was soon adopted by many of RKO's other stations and imitated by non-RKO broadcasters around the country.[198] RKO's FM station in New York pioneered numerous formats under a variety of call letters, including ISH va WXLO ("99X"); 1983 yilda, kabi WRKS ("98.7 Kiss FM"), it became one of the first major stations to regularly program rap musiqasi.[199] In 1979, RKO General created the RKO radio tarmog'i, reportedly the first broadcasting web linked via satellite.[200]

The company's television stations, for the most part non–network affiliated, were known for showing classic films (both RKO productions and many others) under the banner of Million dollarlik film, launched by New York's WOR-TV 1954 yilda.[201] In June 1962, RKO General and Zenith Electronics initiated what became the first extended venture into subscription television service: through early 1969, Hartford, Connecticut's WHCT-TV aired movies, sports, classical and pop music concerts, and other live performances without commercials, generating income from descrambler installation and weekly rental fees as well as individual program charges.[202] However, RKO General's most notable legacy is what may be the longest licensing dispute in television history. It began in 1965, when General Tire was accused of obliging vendors to buy advertising with one of its stations if they wanted to keep their contracts. More than two decades' worth of legal actions ensued, eventually forcing GenCorp (the parent company since 1983 of both General Tire and RKO General) to sell off its broadcast holdings under FCC bosim. RKO General exited the media business permanently in 1991.[197][203]

Keyinchalik mujassamlanishlar

Beginning with 1981's Uglerod nusxasi, RKO General became involved in the coproduction of a number of feature films and TV projects through a subsidiary created three years earlier, RKO Pictures Inc.[204] In collaboration with Universal Studios, RKO put out five films over the next three years. Although the studio frequently worked with major names—including Burt Reynolds va Dolli Parton yilda Texasdagi eng yaxshi kichkina fohishaxona, Jek Nikolson yilda Chegara va Nastassya Kinski yilda Mushuklar (all 1982)—it met with little success. Dan boshlab Meril Strip transport vositasi Mo'l (1985), RKO took on more projects as sole studio backer. Films such as the erotic thriller Yarim oy ko'chasi (1986) and the Vietnam War drama Gamburger tepaligi (1987) followed, but production ended as GenCorp underwent a massive reorganization following an attempted hostile takeover.[197] With RKO General dismantling its broadcast business, RKO Pictures Inc., along with the original RKO studio's savdo belgisi, qayta tuzish rights, and other remaining assets, was spun off and put up for sale. After a bid by RKO Pictures' own management team failed, the managers made a deal with Wesray Capital Corporation —under the control of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Uilyam E. Simon va Rey Chambers —to buy RKO through Entertainment Acquisition Co., a newly created purchasing entity.[205] The sale was completed in late 1987, and Wesray linked RKO with its Olti bayroq amusement parks to form RKO/Six Flags Entertainment Inc.[206]

RKO Pictures LLC
Limited liability company (LLC)
SanoatHarakatli Rasmlar
Tashkil etilgan1981; 39 yil oldin (1981)
Bosh ofisL.A. Office: 9200 W. Sunset Blvd. Suite 600, West Hollywood, CA 90069
N.Y. Office: 750 Lexington Ave. Suite 2200, New York, NY 10022
Asosiy odamlar
Ted Xartli (Rais va bosh direktor)
Dina Merrill (Rais o'rinbosari)
Vanessa Coifman (Executive Vice President of Production and Development)
Bo'limlarRoseblood Movie Co.
RKO Distribution

In 1989, RKO Pictures, which had produced no films while under Wesray control, was spun off yet again. Actress and Post Cereals heiress Dina Merrill and her husband, producer Ted Xartli, acquired a majority interest and merged the company with their Pavilion Communications. After a brief period as RKO/Pavilion, the business was reorganized as RKO Pictures LLC.[207][208][209] With the inaugural RKO production under Hartley and Merrill's ownership, Soxta shaxs (1990), the company also stepped into the distribution business. In 1992, it handled the well-regarded independent production Og'irlik qonunlari, rejissor Nik Gomes.[210] RKO's next significant production came in 1998 with Qudratli Jou Young, ning qayta tuzilishi 1949 RKO movie. The film was distributed by Disney's Buena Vista Pictures Distribution and released under the "Walt Disney Pictures" trademark.[211] In the early 2000s, the company was involved as a coproducer on TV movies and modestly budgeted features at the rate of about one annually. In 2003, RKO coproduced a Broadway stage version of the 1936 Astaire–Rogers vehicle Vaqt tebranishi, sarlavha ostida Hech qachon raqs tushmang.[212]

That same year, RKO Pictures entered into a legal battle with Wall Street Financial Associates (WSFA). Hartley and Merrill claimed that the owners of WSFA fraudulently induced them into signing an acquisition agreement by concealing their "cynical and rapacious" plans to purchase RKO, with the intention only of dismantling it. WSFA sought a preliminary injunction prohibiting RKO's majority owners from selling their interests in the company to any third parties.[213] The WSFA motion was denied in July 2003, freeing RKO to deal with another potential purchaser, InternetStudios.com. In 2004, that planned sale fell through when InternetStudios.com apparently folded.[214] The company's minimal involvement in new film production continued to focus on its remake rights: Biz hali qilmadikmi?, asoslangan Janob Blandings o'zining orzu uyini qurmoqda (1948), was released in April 2007 to dismal reviews.[215] 2009 yilda, Aqlli shubhadan tashqari, a-ni qayta tuzish 1956 RKO film directed by Fritz Lang, fared even worse critically, receiving a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[216] Two years before, RKO had announced the launching of a horror division, Roseblood Movie Company. By early 2010, Roseblood's mission had expanded, according to the RKO website, to encompass the "popular horror/thriller genre ... youth-oriented feature-length motion pictures that are edgy, sensuous, scary and commercial"[217] Ning sahna versiyasi Top shapka toured Great Britain in the second half of 2011.[218] The most recent RKO film coproductions are the well-received Kechiktirilgan kvartet (2012) and the 2015 flop Zo'rg'a o'ldiruvchi.


Studio library

RKO Pictures LLC is the owner of all the trademarks and logotiplar connected with RKO Radio Pictures Inc., as well as the rights concerning stories, ssenariylar (including 800 to 900 unproduced scripts), remakes, davomi va prekvelslar connected with the RKO library.[219] The RKO Pictures television, video, and theatrical distribution rights, however, are in other hands: The U.S. and Canadian TV—and consequently, video—rights to most of the RKO film library were sold at auction in 1971 after the holders, TransBeacon (a corporate descendant of C&C Television), went bankrupt. The auctioned rights were split between Birlashgan rassomlar and Marian B. Inc. (MBI). In 1984, MBI created a subsidiary, Marian Pictures Inc. (MBP), to which it transferred its share of the RKO rights. Two years later GenCorp's subsidiaries, RKO General and RKO Pictures, repurchased the rights then controlled by MBP. The original RKO Radio Pictures Inc copyrighted movies were assigned to RKO General Inc. which still holds the current copyrights. [220]

In the meantime, United Artists had been acquired by MGM. 1986 yilda, MGM / UA 's considerable library, including its RKO rights, was bought by Turner Broadcasting System yangi uchun Turner Entertainment bo'linish. When Turner announced plans to rang berish ten of the RKO films, GenCorp resisted, claiming copyright infringement, leading to both sides filing lawsuits.[221] During RKO Pictures' brief Wesray episode, Turner acquired many of the distribution rights that had returned to RKO via MBP, as well as both the theatrical rights and the TV rights originally held back from C&C for the cities where RKO owned stations.[222] The new owners of RKO also allowed Turner to move forward with colorization of the library.[223] Early in 1989, Turner declared that no less than the historic Fuqaro Keyn would be colorized; upon review of Welles's ironclad creative contract with RKO, however, that plan was abandoned.[224] In October 1996, Turner Broadcasting was merged into Time Warner (now WarnerMedia ), which now controls distribution of the bulk of the RKO library in North America.[225]

Ownership of the major European TV and video distribution rights to RKO's library is divided on a virtual country-by-country basis: In the UK, many of the RKO rights are currently held by Universal studiyalar.[226] 1981 yilda, RAI, the public broadcasting service, acquired the Italian rights to the RKO library, which it now shares with Silvio Berluskoni "s Fininvest.[227] In France, the rights are held by Ariès.[228] The German rights were acquired in 1969 by KirchGruppe on behalf of its KirchMedia division, which went bankrupt in 2002.[229] EOS Entertainment's Beta Film purchased many of KirchMedia's rights in 2004, and the library is now distributed by Kineos, created in 2005 as a Beta Film–KirchMedia joint venture.[230]In Spain, the Spanish rights go to Filmax until 1997 and Manga Films (now known as Vertice 360) since 1997.

The Disney films originally distributed by RKO are owned and now fully controlled by Uolt Disney kompaniyasi "s distribution division.[231] Rights to many other independent productions distributed by the studio, as well as some notable coproductions, are in new hands. Ko'pchilik Semyuel Goldvin films are owned by his estate and are administered by Warner Bros. in North America and Miramax xalqaro miqyosda.[232] Bu ajoyib hayot, coproduced by Frank Kapra "s Ozodlik filmlari,[233] va Aziz Maryam qo'ng'iroqlari, coproduced by Leo Makkari 's Rainbow Productions,[234] endi egalik qiladi ViacomCBS, through its indirect acquisition of Respublika rasmlari, sobiq Milliy telefilm assotsiatsiyalari.[235] Mashhur, a coproduction between RKO and Devid Selznik 's Vanguard Films, is now owned by ABC (ostida Walt Disney Studios kinokartinalari )[236] while home video rights are currently controlled by Criterion to'plami.[237] Begona, dan Uilyam Gets "s Xalqaro rasmlar, has been in the jamoat mulki 1973 yildan beri.[238] Eighteen films produced by RKO itself in 1930–31, including Diksiana, were also allowed to fall into the public domain, as were several later in-house productions, including high-profile releases such as Hayvonot dunyosi, Jannat qushi, Inson qulligi, Sevgi ishi, Notr-Damning hunchbigi va Ular nimani xohlashlarini bilishdi.[239] In the late 1950s, Hughes bought his beloved Jet uchuvchisi va Fathchi back from RKO Teleradio; in 1979, Universal acquired the rights to the latter.[240]

Shaxsiy ma'lumotlar

The famous "Transmitter" production logo of RKO Radio Pictures 1929-1957
Classic closing ident of RKO Radio Pictures

Most of the films released by RKO Pictures between 1929 and 1957 have an opening ident displaying the studio's famous trademark, the spinning globe and radio tower, nicknamed the "Transmitter." It was inspired by a two-hundred-foot tower built in Colorado for a giant electrical amplifier, or Tesla lasan, created by inventor Nikola Tesla.[241] Orson Welles referred to the design as his "favorite among the old idents, not just because it was so often a reliable portent. ... It reminds us to listen."[242] The studio's closing ident, a triangle enclosing a thunderbolt, was also a well-known trademark.[243] Instead of the Transmitter, many Disney va Goldvin films released by the studio originally appeared with colorful versions of the RKO closing ident as part of the main title sequence. For decades, re-releases of these films had Disney /Buena Vista va MGM /Goldvin ident replacing the RKO insignia, but the originals have been made available in some of the Blu-ray and DVD editions.[244] With the creation of Disney's streaming service Disney +, all films available on the site that were originally released with the RKO thunderbolt ident have had the logo restored. The Hartley–Merrill RKO Pictures has created new versions of the Transmitter and the closing thunderbolt ident.

Shuningdek qarang

Izohlar

  1. ^ The current online edition of Britannica entsiklopediyasi erroneously claims that RKO resulted "from the merger of the Radio Corporation of America, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theatre chain, and the American Pathé production firm." Qarang RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. entry. Retrieved 2010-05-03. Many other online resources make the same false claim or similar ones (e.g., that the RCA Photophone business was made part of RKO).

    Note also the following:

    • Many sources incorrectly describe Keith-Albee-Orpheum as the union of three theater chains; in fact the name describes the union of just two chains, B. F. Keith Corp. (doing business as Keith-Albee) and Orpheum Circuit Inc. Edward F. Albee edi Benjamin F. Keith o'ng qo'li. He took over the company after the deaths of its founder, in 1914, and his son, A. Paul Keith, four years later.[245]
    • Many sources incorrectly give FBO's full name as "Film Booking Office of America"; the proper name is Film Booking Offices of America, which may be confirmed by examining its official logo.[246]As an example of the many erroneous descriptions of RKO's early history that are routine even in reputable sources, take the summary history of the company's origins in Katta dizayn: Gollivud zamonaviy biznes korxonasi sifatida, 1930-1939, by Tino Balio (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995 [1993]), p. 16. The following corrections must be made to a single paragraph:
    • FBO's full name was emas "Film Booking Office" (see above).
    • RCA Photophone was emas "amalgamated" with FBO and KAO under the Radio-Keith-Orpheum holding company.[247]
    • The company did emas "contain" anything close to "three hundred theaters" (see note b, below).
    • Until its acquisition of Pathé in 1931, RKO did emas "contain ... four studios" in either sense of the term—production company (it "contained" one: FBO) or permanent production facility (it had, even by a generous count, three: FBO's Hollywood studio, the small New York studio FBO shared with Pathé, and the Encino kinoteatr RKO established in 1929).
  2. ^ The reference in Jewell (1982) to "the 700 K-A-O Theatres in the US and Canada" (p. 10) is inaccurate. Vaqt (1927) indicates that as of May 1927, Keith-Albee (legally the B. F. Keith Corp.) had 50 theaters and Orpheum had 47. Crafton (1997) claims KAO had "200 theaters" at the time of RKO's founding (p. 141), though he references no contemporary source. He does cite Kundalik film in a description of RKO as controlling 250 theaters in 1930, following a "buying binge" (p. 256). Schatz (1998) describes an "RKO chain of 161 theaters" around the time David O. Selznick became production chief in October 1931 (p. 128). Schatz (1999) writes that as of 1940, RKO had "slightly more than 100 theaters" (p. 17). He explains that "the figures on studio-affiliated theaters vary considerably, owing to the number of houses in which the studios held only partial interest—as little as 5 percent in some cases" (p. 484, n. 24). A 1944 book, Economic Control of the Motion Picture Industry, includes the table "Theater holdings of the major companies are approximately as follows"—RKO is listed as holding 222 theaters.[248] Lasky (1989) indicates that a 1953 Baxt article tallied the RKO circuit in 1948, at the time of Hughes's purchase, at "124 theaters, plus a share in about 75 others" (p. 205).
  3. ^ The standard history and reference guide to the studio's films, RKO hikoyasi, by Richard B. Jewell, with Vernon Harbin (New York: Arlington House/Crown, 1982) is used as the final arbiter of whether specific films made between 1929 and 1957 were RKO solo productions, coproductions, or completely independent productions. Official year of release is also per RKO hikoyasi.
  4. ^ Only one previous sound film had cost more than $1 million, and just barely: Nuh kemasi (1929), from Warner Bros.[249]
  5. ^ For the switch to the RKO Radio Pictures brand at the beginning of the 1932–33 exhibition season for U.S. print advertising, see, e.g., this original poster uchun Eng xavfli o'yin, which premiered September 9, 1932.[250]
  6. ^ Among still-ascendant male stars, Grant was preceded by the more established Fredrik Mart frilanser sifatida. For other freelance Hollywood performers of the mid-1930s, see Balio (1995), p. 155.
  7. ^ By August 1940, the lease was no longer exclusive—see "Screen News Here and in Hollywood," Nyu-York Tayms, August 28, 1940. By mid-1949, Selznick had left the studio entirely—see two articles by Thomas F. Brady: "Republic to Make Film on Baseball," Nyu-York Tayms, April 8, 1949; and "Hollywood Buys More Stories," Nyu-York Tayms, May 1, 1949.
  8. ^ Schatz's (1999) brief description of Janob va xonim Smit as a "critical and commercial failure" (p. 89) is evidently incorrect. According to historian Leonard Leff, "Janob va xonim Smit had a happy ending: good reviews and modest box office success."[251] Ed Sikov agrees, calling it a "solid commercial hit".[252] Donald Spoto's report on its release lends further support to this position.[253]
  9. ^ Garchi Fuqaro Keyn was technically structured through a set of three contracts originally drawn up in 1939 as a coproduction between RKO and Welles's then newly formed Mercury Productions Inc. (and, indeed, was billed on a title card as "A Mercury Production"), in bottom-line terms it was an RKO production: the studio provided the entire budget and production facilities, assumed all the financial risk, and held all the rights once Welles delivered his final, inviolable cut.[224][254]
  10. ^ Fuqaro Keyn lost $150,000–$160,000 on original release (the production cost was precisely $805,527.53); The Magnificent Ambersons lost $624,000 (production cost $1.125 million); va chiqarilmagan Hammasi haqiqat cost the studio an estimated $1.2 million.[255] Note that the studio operation itself was almost certainly a bigger money-loser than the cited figures suggest, with profits coming from the corporation's theatrical division.[256]
  11. ^ Jewell (1982) states that it "attracted $3,355,000 in film rentals" (p. 181); Lasky (1989) refers to an article in Hollywood Reporter on the film, published seven months after its premiere, predicting it "would do better than $3 million in the U.S. alone" (p. 185). It is not listed in Schatz's (1999) appendix of annual top box-office films of the 1940s (p. 466), based on a 1992 Turli xillik reckoning, perhaps because of its unusual production history. Assuming Jewell's figure is accurate, and the Schatz/Turli xillik list is otherwise accurate and complete, Gitlerning bolalari was the ninth biggest earner of 1943, a very impressive feat for a movie with a B budget and star (Tim Holt).
  12. ^ Many online sources give RKO General's year of inception as 1958, without evidence; O'Neill's 1959 dating is supported by the fact that there is no mention of RKO General in either the Nyu-York Tayms yoki Los Anjeles Tayms before February 1960.

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  33. ^ Lasky (1989), pp. 77–80, 93.
  34. ^ Kroessler (2002), p. 219.
  35. ^ Schatz (1998), pp. 131–33; Lasky (1989), pp. 81–82.
  36. ^ Shats (1998), p. 133; Laski (1989), p. 83.
  37. ^ Mueller (1986), p. 7.
  38. ^ Schatz (1998), pp. 131.
  39. ^ Lasky (1989), pp. 78–79, 93–95; Jewell (1982), pp. 52, 60.
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  41. ^ Finler (2003), p. 221.
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  46. ^ Laski (1989), p. 112.
  47. ^ a b Finler (2003), p. 229.
  48. ^ Xarvi (1998), p. 290.
  49. ^ Qarang, masalan, Di Battista (2001), p. 90.
  50. ^ Laski (1989), 109-10 betlar.
  51. ^ Finler (2003), p. 224.
  52. ^ Jewell (1982), 71, 84, 103, 126, 128, 134, 168, 172, 196, 228, 241, 283.
  53. ^ Jewell (1982), 77, 88-betlar; Laski (1989), p. 117.
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  56. ^ Naremor (1989), 17-18 betlar.
  57. ^ Rode (2007), 58-59 betlar.
  58. ^ Morton (2005), p. 43.
  59. ^ Cotta Vaz va Barron (2002), p. 59.
  60. ^ "Nima? Yana filmlardagi rang?" Baxt, 1934 yil oktyabr (mavjud) onlayn ); Morton (2005), 111-12 betlar; Laski (1989), p. 104.
  61. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 87; Laski (1989), 115-16 betlar.
  62. ^ Finler (2003), p. 231.
  63. ^ Brunelle (1996); Morton (2005), 75-77, 108-9-betlar.
  64. ^ Laski (1989), 118-19 betlar; Jewell (1982), p. 19.
  65. ^ Makken (1998), 79-80, 144-betlar.
  66. ^ a b Finler (2003), p. 215.
  67. ^ Dikshteyn (2002), p. 48.
  68. ^ To'siq (2003), p. 170; Laski (1989), p. 137; Jewell (1982), p. 92.
  69. ^ Finler (2003), 36, 47, 319 betlar.
  70. ^ "Ekrandagi yangiliklar" Nyu-York Tayms, 1937 yil 16-fevral; Shats (1998), p. 181.
  71. ^ Jewell (1982), 18-19, 102-betlar.
  72. ^ "Briskin RKO radio ishlab chiqarish rahbari lavozimidan ketdi". Kundalik film. 1937 yil 4-noyabr. P. 1. Olingan 9-noyabr, 2015.ochiq kirish
  73. ^ Laski (1989), 154-57 betlar; Jewell (1982), 19, 128-29, 138-betlar.
  74. ^ Jewell (1982), 138, 152, 171, 178, 181, 246, 260 betlar.
  75. ^ Jewell (1982), 138, 148, 150, 158, 178, 186, 206, 217, 235, 264-betlar.
  76. ^ Laski (1989), 153-54 betlar.
  77. ^ a b Finler (2003), 214-15 betlar.
  78. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 136.
  79. ^ Borduell va boshq. (1985), p. 349. Uokerning avvalgi ishi uchun King Kong: Morton (2005), 30, 43, 52 betlar.
  80. ^ "20-asrning 100 ta eng yaxshi filmi". Qishloq ovozi. Filmsite.org. 2001. Arxivlangan asl nusxasi 2014 yil 31 martda. Olingan 29 avgust, 2009. "O'nta so'rovnoma". Ko'rish va ovoz. BFI. 2002. Arxivlangan asl nusxasi 2012 yil 25 mayda. Olingan 29 avgust, 2009.
  81. ^ Kear (2009), p. 144.
  82. ^ Laski (1989), 152, 156-57 betlar; Jewell (1982), p. 116.
  83. ^ Brenning pozitsiyasi uchun Jeff va Simmons (2001), 119, 122-125-betlarga qarang.
  84. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 140.
  85. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 304.
  86. ^ Shats (1999), p. 57; Jewell (1982), p. 142.
  87. ^ Laski (1989), 161-65 betlar.
  88. ^ Laski (1989), 167, 176-80 betlar.
  89. ^ Kassadagi ulkan muvaffaqiyatsizliklar uchun: Jewell (1982), 144, 146 betlar (Illinoys shtatidagi Abe Linkoln), 152 (Ular nimani xohlashlarini bilishdi), 156, 166 (Hamma pulni sotib olish mumkin); Laski (1989), p. 165; Shats (1999), p. 57. Rojers uchun: Jewell (1982), p. 156; Shats (1999), p. 57.
  90. ^ "Ned Depinet RKO Pictures Unit-ni boshqaradi; Taraqqiyot bo'yicha eks-vitse-prezident G. J. Sheferni yutish uchun saylandi", Nyu-York Tayms, 1942 yil 26-iyun.
  91. ^ Jewell (1982), 142, 168 betlar.
  92. ^ Laski (1989), 167-68, 174-76-betlar.
  93. ^ McBride (2006), p. 63; Server (2002), p. 78.
  94. ^ Jewell (1982), 142, 168, 208 betlar.
  95. ^ Jewell (1982), 168, 178 betlar.
  96. ^ Laski (1989), p. 187.
  97. ^ Fein (2000), passim; Laski (1989), p. 228.
  98. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 213.
  99. ^ a b Finler (2003), p. 222.
  100. ^ Laski (1989), p. 176.
  101. ^ Jewell (1982), 200, 208, 226 betlar.
  102. ^ Jewell (1982), 187, 198, 204, 211, 225, 241, 259, 286, 290, 295.
  103. ^ Jewell (1982), 164, 168, 192, 203, 232-betlar.
  104. ^ Jewell (1982), 209, 211, 241, 248, 283 betlar.
  105. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 206; Finler (2003), 177-bet.
  106. ^ Jewell (1982), 212, 247, 232 betlar.
  107. ^ Jewell (1982), 184, 196, 203, 211, 218, 229-betlar.
  108. ^ Jewell (1982), 212, 178, 220 betlar.
  109. ^ Tomson (1997), p. 268; Brady (1990), 378-81 betlar.
  110. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 215. Keyingi holati uchun qarang, masalan, "20-asrning 100 ta eng yaxshi filmi". Qishloq ovozi. Filmsite.org. 2001. Arxivlangan asl nusxasi 2014 yil 31 martda. Olingan 11 yanvar, 2018. (O'n oltinchi, 1927-1959 yillarda yaratilgan Gollivud filmlari orasida beshinchi.)
  111. ^ Jewell (1982), 228, 241, 248 betlar.
  112. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 181; Laski (1989), 184-85 betlar. Keyingi yili "Katta beshlik" ning byudjetlari uchun: Shats (1999), p. 173, 6.3-jadval.
  113. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 186.
  114. ^ Shats (1999), p. 173, 6.3-jadval.
  115. ^ a b Shats (1999), p. 232; Ballinger va Graydon (2007), p. 23.
  116. ^ B filmlari va biroz yuqoriroq byudjetli "qidiruv mahsulotlar" uchun rejissyor Robson: Jewell (1982), 187, 190, 195, 204, 211, 238-betlar. Hikmatli: Jewell (1982), 193, 195, 201, 206-betlar. , 215, 219, 231, 236. Mann tomonidan: Jewell (1982), 202, 205, 212, 219-betlar.
  117. ^ Finler (2003), 219-20 betlar.
  118. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 190.
  119. ^ Finler (2003), 214-15, 221-22 betlar.
  120. ^ Jewell (1982), 151, 171, 180, 186, 197, 211-betlar.
  121. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 164.
  122. ^ Qarang, masalan, Ballinger va Graydon (2007), p. 19; Finler (2003), p. 216.
  123. ^ a b Finler (2003), p. 216.
  124. ^ Kuk (2007), p. 22; Stephens (1995), p. 102; Jeykobs (2007), 315-16 betlar.
  125. ^ Ballinger va Graydon (2007), 196-98, 205-6 betlar. Mitchum ishtirokidagi noir va noirga oid filmlar uchun: Jewell (1982), 216, 222, 223, 231, 237, 250, 255, 256, 259, 265, 267, 272, 274. Rayan: Jewell (1982) , 220, 222, 227, 236, 247, 248, 252, 255, 259, 262, 266-betlar.
  126. ^ Ballinger va Graydon (2007), 100-2, 152, 189-90, 210 betlar; Laski (1989), p. 198; Shvarts (2005), p. 60.
  127. ^ Jewell (1982), 205, 216 betlar.
  128. ^ Qarang, masalan, Ballinger va Graydon (2007), 56-bet, 151-52; Shats (1999), p. 364; Ottoson (1981), p. 132.
  129. ^ Finler (2003), p. 225.
  130. ^ Dikson (2005), p. 112.
  131. ^ Langdon-Teklav (2007), p. 168.
  132. ^ Finler (2003), p. 357; Jewell (1982), p. 214.
  133. ^ Glik, Reymann va Xofman (2003), 35-36 betlar; Schatz (1999), 16-17 betlar.
  134. ^ Laski (1989), 203-4 bet.
  135. ^ Laski (1989), 192-93, 195 betlar.
  136. ^ Shats (1999), 299, 331 betlar; Laski (1989), p. 202.
  137. ^ a b Jewell (1982), p. 216.
  138. ^ Shats (1999), 290-91 betlar.
  139. ^ Fridrix (1997), 333-36 betlar; Laski (1989), 198-202 betlar.
  140. ^ Laski (1989), 194-98, 202-betlar.
  141. ^ Braun va Broeske (2004), p. 281.
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  143. ^ Laski (1989), 204-5 betlar.
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  145. ^ Laski (1989), p. 206, 216–17.
  146. ^ Laski (1989), 216-17, 221-22 betlar; Jewell (1982), p. 143.
  147. ^ Shatsga asoslangan tahlil (1999), p. 330, 10.2-jadval. RKO ko'rsatkichlarini tasdiqlash uchun Jewell (1982), 216, 226-betlarga qarang.
  148. ^ Finler (2003), p. 220.
  149. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 226.
  150. ^ Laski (1989), 218-20, 223, 227 betlar; "6-qism: Gollivud studiya tizimiga chek qo'ygan Oliy sud qarori, 1948 yil". Mustaqil prodyuserlar va eng asosiy ish, 1938–1949. Mustaqil kinofilmlar ishlab chiqaruvchilar jamiyati. Olingan 22 iyul, 2006.
  151. ^ Laski (1989), 205, 219 betlar.
  152. ^ Server (2002), 219-22 betlar.
  153. ^ Jewell (1982), 246, 254 betlar.
  154. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 237.
  155. ^ Ottoson (1981), p. 155.
  156. ^ Qarang, masalan, Finler (2003), p. 216.
  157. ^ Laski (1989), 220-21 bet.
  158. ^ Jewell (1982), 262, 266 betlar.
  159. ^ Myuller (1998), 176-77 betlar; Jewell (1982), 251, 257, 271 betlar.
  160. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 265.
  161. ^ Finler (2003), 358-59 betlar.
  162. ^ Laski (1989) da keltirilgan, p. 224.
  163. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 243; Laski (1989), 223-24 betlar.
  164. ^ Jewell (1982), 243-44, 262, 270-betlar; Laski (1989), 225-26 betlar; "Eski olov qaytadi", Vaqt, 1953 yil 23-fevral (mavjud) onlayn ).
  165. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 262.
  166. ^ Jewell (1982), 246, 262 betlar; Laski (1989), 221, 223, 225 betlar.
  167. ^ Krosbi (2009), p. 75.
  168. ^ Konant (1981), p. 567.
  169. ^ Laski (1989) da keltirilgan, p. 226.
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  171. ^ Jewell (1982), 244, 276 betlar; Laski (1989), 226-27 betlar.
  172. ^ Jewell (1982), 244-45 betlar; Laski (1989), 218-19, 223, 227-28 betlar.
  173. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 245; Laski (1989), 228-29 betlar.
  174. ^ Laski (1989), p. 229.
  175. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 290; Laski (1989), 219, 221, 223, 228 betlar.
  176. ^ "Kauchuk Yanki" Vaqt, 1943 yil 18-yanvar (mavjud) onlayn ).
  177. ^ Xovard (1979), p. 151; "Don Li sotuvini tasdiqlash so'ralgan," Los Anjeles Tayms, 1950 yil 21-noyabr; "Don Li tizimining sotilishi tasdiqlandi: FCC qaroriga kiritilgan $ 12,320,000 miqdoridagi naqd to'lov" Los Anjeles Tayms, 1950 yil 28-dekabr.
  178. ^ "Radio-TV birlashishi F.C.C. tomonidan ma'qullangan; Bitim Macy-ning General Tire-ning Don Li tizimiga WOR manfaatlarini o'tkazishini o'z ichiga oladi" Nyu-York Tayms, 1952 yil 18-yanvar.
  179. ^ "General Tire M. B. S. Boshqaruvini qo'lga kiritdi; aksiyadorlar yig'ilishida ovoz berish 2-for-1 aksiyalarni ajratish - kompaniya ko'proq televizion stantsiyalar sotib oladi" Nyu-York Tayms, 1952 yil 2-aprel.
  180. ^ Xovard (1979), 150-52 betlar; "Daromad Macy System uchun 5% ga tushadi; Televizionning sho'ba korxonasi uchun yuqori narx, General Teleradio, Cuts Consolidated Net," Nyu-York Tayms, 1950 yil 11 oktyabr.
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  182. ^ "Telekanal egalari va menejerlariga ochiq xat", Billboard, 1956 yil 8 sentyabr.
  183. ^ Xilmes (1990), 160-61 betlar; Boddi (1990), p. 138.
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  185. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 280.
  186. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 284.
  187. ^ Jewell (1982), 282, 286 betlar.
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  191. ^ "Movie Studio Backlot-ning dastlabki rejalari tasdiqlandi", Los Anjeles Tayms, 1975 yil 1-may.
  192. ^ Konant (1981), 567-68 betlar.
  193. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 296.
  194. ^ O'Nil (1966), p. 180.
  195. ^ Jewell (1982), p. 15.
  196. ^ "Disney, Britaniyaning" RKO Japan, Ltd "firmasining hamkori". Har kungi kinofilm. 86 (3). Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. 1957 yil 6-iyul. 1, 6-betlar. Olingan 12 aprel, 2018.
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  198. ^ Fong-Torres (2001), 172-76-betlar; Denisoff (1986), 242-51 betlar.
  199. ^ Keys (2004), p. 99.
  200. ^ Koks (2009), p. 198.
  201. ^ Ning dastlabki tarixi uchun Million dollarlik film va WOR filmlarini dasturlash, qarang Segrave (1999), 40, 48-betlar; "Televizion va radio yangiliklari;" Birinchi studiya "qish mavsumiga qaytadi", Nyu-York Tayms, 1954 yil 19-sentyabr (ko'chirilgan) onlayn ); "WOR-TV 10 ta Selznik filmini sotib oldi;" Paket "uchun rekord $ 198,000 to'laydi -" Million Dollar Film "Diskord namoyishi mavzusida namoyish etiladi", Nyu-York Tayms, 1956 yil 25 fevral; "WOR-TV tomonidan sotib olingan 2 ta badiiy film;" Million dollarlik film "ga" Chempion "va" Jasorat uyi "qo'shildi" " Nyu-York Tayms, 1956 yil 16-iyun.
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