Thunderous Pictures

Few Hollywood movie studios or production houses are as tied to a single film as RKO Pictures is to 1941’s Citizen Kane. Perhaps it’s simply the fact that it is one of the most widely celebrated movies of all time and the animated radio transmitter has been played over and over. It also seems that, despite RKO pictures and its logo being around since 1928, there has been no logo other than that nostalgic beep-beep-beeping, black and white rendition. The before logo shown above has been in use since 1997. Selective film and identity memory, I guess. Recently — and for anyone that might know if this is not so recent, feel free to let us know — RKO introduced a new, simpler logo. “End” logo that appeared at the closing credits of a film, it would take on th