What is RKO Pictures?
{{multiple issues| {{refimprove|date=September 2021}} {{one source|date=September 2021}} }} {{Infobox company | name = RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. | logo = RKO Pictures 2009.png | industry = [[Motion picture]]s | fate = Closed | predecessors = {{Plainlist| * [[Keith-Albee-Orpheum]] Corporation * [[Film Booking Offices of America]] }} | parent = {{Plainlist| * [[Radio Corporation of America]] ([[Technicolor SA]]) * [[Atlas Corporation]] * [[General Tire and Rubber Company]] ([[Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings|ARH]]) }} | homepage = {{URL|www.rko.com}} | foundation = {{Start date and age|1928|10|23}} (original)<br>{{Start date and age|2009}} (revival) | founder = [[David Sarnoff]] | defunct = {{End date and age|1959|3|7}} (original) | hq_location = 11301 West Olympic Boulevard | hq_location_city = [[Los Angeles]], California, US }} '''RKO Pictures''' is a company in the [[United States]] that makes and sells [[movie]]s. It was first known as '''RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.''' RKO was an [[acronym]] for Radio-Keith-Orpheum, the original parent company of RKO Radio Pictures.<ref>{{cite web |title=RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/RKO-Radio-Pictures-Inc |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=7 November 2018 |language=en}}</ref> It was one of the [[studio system|Big Five]] [[major film studio|studios]] of [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]]'s [[Cinema of the United States#Portrait of Classical Hollywood Cinema (1917–1960)|Golden Age]]. The company was made by the merger of the [[Keith-Albee-Orpheum]] (KAO) [[theater]] [[Chain store|chain]] and the [[Film Booking Offices of America]] (FBO) [[Movie studio|studio]] in October 1928. It was put together by [[David Sarnoff]] of [[RCA]]. His goal was to create a market for RCA's [[RCA Photophone|photophone]], which was their [[sound-on-film]] technology. By the mid-1940s, the studio was under the control of [[investor]] [[Floyd Odlum]]. RKO is well known for the [[Musical theater|musicals]] it made in the 1930s. These starred [[Fred Astaire]] an