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RCA Victor originally reissued its older 78rpm Red Seal classical symphonic recordings on the Camden label using the actual names of the symphony orchestras involved; but soon, to avoid competing with recent full-priced recordings by the same orchestras, a series of pseudonyms were used, drawn primarily from the names of hotels in nearby Philadelphia, across the Delaware River from RCA Victor ...
RCA Camden was a budget record label launched by RCA Victor in 1955. Initially a classical label, it later expanded to include re-releases of older pop records, including those of Elvis Presley . Mono
In April 1928, RCA Photophone, Inc., was organized by a group of companies including RCA to develop sound-movie technology. In the fall of 1927, RCA had purchased stock in Film Booking Office (FBO), and on October 25, 1928, with the help of Joseph P. Kennedy, the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation (RKO) studio was formed by merging FBO with Keith ...
List of Chinese films of the 1950s; List of Columbia Pictures films (1950–1959) List of Croatian films of the 1950s; List of Czech films of the 1950s; D.
On October 23, 1928, RCA announced that it had acquired control of the Film Booking Offices of America studio and Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and was merging them under a holding company, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. [1] Its new production arm was incorporated as RKO Productions Inc. on January 25, 1929. [2]
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
RCA Victor issued several spoken word albums in the 1950s and 60s, notably the soundtracks of the films Richard III, [29] A Man for All Seasons and The Taming of the Shrew, [30] as well as complete versions of the National Theatre of Great Britain stage productions of Othello (starring Laurence Olivier) and Much Ado About Nothing (starring ...
In the mid-1950s, music instructor Mickey Baker was inspired by the success of husband-and-wife musical duo Les Paul and Mary Ford to form a duo with one of his pupils Sylvia Robinson. [3] They released their first record together, "Fine Love," as "Little" Sylvia Vanderpool (Vanderpool now with a "D") with Mickey Baker and His Band on Cat ...