Word: rko
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...center are the frames themselves, a credit sequence in block-like lettering with deep perspective shadows. The words appear over a Deco keystone graphically linked to the logo of the studio that made this movie: RKO Radio Pictures. It's hard to make out the words in the 16mm frames; the sequence is right at the end of a dissolve, and in many of the frames you read two words in the place of one. Only at one end of the strip do the words become clear: there's "Technical Staff," under that "E.B." someone, maybe "Gibson," then "Marcel Delgado...
...easily available for rental or sale, there are rumours of a notoriously bad German DVD, and it shows up on AMC and TCM fairly often (last Tuesday, in fact). I'm guessing the Turner library (a part of AOL Time Warner, by the way, which owns all the old RKO releases) is preparing a DVD for U.S. release. (There was also an excellent Criterion Collection laser disk. Do you still have your laser disk player...
...Biggest Star. Or very nearly. He was the No. 1 box-office star five times (the only one between 1915 and 1980). After their first runs, "Going My Way" was the top-grossing film in Paramount's history, and "The Bells of St. Mary's" the top grosser in RKO history...