RKO library before Turner
Before RKO formed its own home video division, which was later acquired, along with home video rights to its library, by Turner Home Entertainment, other companies had non-exclusive rights to the library. This page breaks down who had what.
Blackhawk Video
[edit]This was the home video division of Blackhawk Films. By 1985, this division was folded into Republic Pictures Home Video.
- The Affairs of Annabel
- Alice Adams
- Allegheny Uprising
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- Back to Bataan
- A Damsel in Distress
- Danger Lights
- The French Line
- George White's Scandals
- A Girl in Every Port
- Higher and Higher
- Hold 'Em Jail
- I Remember Mama
- If You Knew Susie
- In Name Only
- Johnny Angel
- Kitty Foyle
- The Lost Patrol
- Morning Glory
- My Favorite Wife
- Once Upon a Honeymoon
- The Set-Up
- Shall We Dance?
- She Couldn't Say No
- Show Business
- Sing Your Worries Away
- Sister Kenny
- Stage Door
- Station West
- Those Endearing Young Charms
- Tom, Dick and Harry
- Trail Street
- Tycoon
- A Woman Rebels
King of Video
[edit]- Citizen Kane
- Gunga Din
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- King Kong
- Murder, My Sweet
- The Thing
- Top Hat
- Tycoon
The Nostalgia Merchant
[edit]By 1984, the company was a division of Media Home Entertainment.
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- Alice Adams
- Allegheny Uprising
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- Back to Bataan
- Bedlam
- Blood on the Moon
- Carefree
- Citizen Kane
- Crossfire
- A Damsel in Distress
- Flying Down to Rio
- Flying Leathernecks
- Follow the Fleet
- Fort Apache
- The Gay Divorcee
- Gunga Din
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- I Remember Mama
- I Walked with a Zombie
- King Kong
- Macao
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Mary of Scotland
- Mighty Joe Young
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
- Mr. Lucky
- Murder, My Sweet
- My Favorite Wife
- None But the Lonely Heart
- Once Upon a Honeymoon
- Out of the Past
- Shall We Dance?
- Suspicion
- Swing Time
- Tall in the Saddle
- The Thing
- Tom, Dick and Harry
- Top Hat
- Tycoon
Video Communications Inc.
[edit]This company held the video rights to the Wald-Krasna library, to which Gold Key Entertainment (later folded into Four Star International) held ancillary rights until the '90s when RKO repurchased the library. A few standalone RKO features were also released by VCI.
- Back from Eternity
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Captain Kidd
- Bundle of Joy
- Clash by Night
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Son of Sinbad
VidAmerica
[edit]- Citizen Kane
- Flying Leathernecks
- Fort Apache
- Gunga Din
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- King Kong
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Mighty Joe Young
- Panama Lady
- Suspicion
- The Thing
- Top Hat