An RKO Radio Picture

[vakkotaur]

"RKO Radio Picture" caused me some bewilderment as a kid. I did not then know that this company, RKO Radio, had gone into the movie business. Instead I wondered a bit what RKO was and why a "Radio Picture" was a movie when pictures by radio were so obviously television.

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[aedifica]

And I, a few years younger, only know the phrase from seeing the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Scene: Backdrop says ___ Radio Picture (I don't remember, it may be RKO)
Audience line: What the fuck's a radio picture?
Audience reply: It's a picture of a radio.