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RKO Pictures

American film and distribution company
Organization film_production_company Q267282
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Summary

RKO Pictures is a film production company[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of film production company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,495 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country of citizenship: United States[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: film distributor[5], business[6]
  • Founder: David Sarnoff[7], Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.[8]
  • Headquarters location: Manhattan[9]
  • Commons category: RKO Pictures[10]
  • Industry: motion picture, video and television programme production activities[11]
  • Inception: October 23, 1928[12]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: March 7, 1959[13]
  • Official website: http://www.rko.com/[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:RKO General[15]
  • Replaces: Film Booking Offices of America[16], Keith-Albee-Orpheum[17]
  • Legal form: joint-stock company[18]
  • List of works: list of RKO films[19]
  • Native label: Radio-Keith-Orpheum Pictures[20]
  • Different from: RKO Pictures LLC[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject New York Public Library[22]
  • Has works in the collection: Photography Collection[23], Anne Frank House[24]

Why It Matters

RKO Pictures has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Photographers' Identities Catalog. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Emporis Building Directory. Retrieved . therealdeal.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 1FF7-3A24-8ECE-EBDE-0445
    Wikidata description → American film and distribution company
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  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4OllKh
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Celest · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Founder → David Sarnoff, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
    Industry → —
    Instance of → —
    Legal form → joint-stock company
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official name: RKO Productions, Inc."
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