Studio collection, 1922-1956.

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Studio collection, 1922-1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41261884

Collection consists of materials related to RKO Radio Pictures' feature films and shorts. Includes music scores, daily production reports, story submission cards, payroll cards, scripts, and story synopses. Script materials are held in two groups. Series S script materials include synopses, treatments, screenplay drafts, shooting scripts, cutting continuity, dialog continuity, revisions and some memoranda. Series SR script synopses and reader's reports include mainly undeveloped projects.

4029 boxes (1679.0 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7435385

University of California, Los Angeles

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RKO Radio Pictures

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RKO can be traced to a Milwaukee nickelodeon (1909); after a series of mergers it became the nucleus of Mutual Film Corp.; in 1928, it emerged as Radio-Keith-Orpheum and was involved in production, distribution, and exhibition; the studio employed many of the top creative talents of the 1930s and 40s and was responsible for film classics such as Citizen Kane, Bringing up baby, Suspicion, Gay divorcee, and The magnificent Ambersons; additionally RKO was the distributor of many of Samuel Goldwyn, ...