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Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an Anglo-American import-export company. Robertson-Cole began distributing films in the United States that December and opened a Los Angeles production facility in 1920. Late that year, R-C entered into a working relationship with East Coast financier Joseph P. Kennedy. A business reorganization in 1922 led to the company's assumption of the new FBO name. Two years later, the studio contracted with Western leading man Fred Thomson, who within a couple years was one of Hollywood's most popular stars. Thomson was just one of several silent screen cowboys with whom FB

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  • Die Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) (deutsch: „Filmbuchungsbüros Amerikas“; auch: FBO Pictures Corporation) waren ein amerikanisches Filmproduktionsunternehmen der Stummfilmzeit, das sich vor allem mit Low-Budget-Filmen beschäftigte. Das Unternehmen begann als amerikanische Zweigstelle einer britischen Außenhandelsfirma unter dem Namen Robertson-Cole (U.S.). Robertson-Cole produzierte seit 1920 eigene Filme und benannte sich 1922 in Film Booking Offices of America um. 1923 schloss das Studio einen Vertrag mit dem Western-Darsteller Fred Thomson, der bald zu einem der beliebtesten Stars Hollywoods wurde. Thomson war nur einer von zahlreichen Leinwand-Cowboys, die das Image von FBO prägten. FBO, dessen Kerngeschäft in den amerikanischen Kleinstädten lag, produzierte auch viele romantische Melodramen, Actionfilme und heitere Kurzfilme. 1926 kaufte eine von Joseph P. Kennedy geführte Finanzgruppe das Unternehmen auf. Im Juni 1928 wurde FBO, das die RCA-Photophone-Technik verwendete, das zweite Hollywood-Filmstudio, das einen Tonfilm in Spielfilmlänge herausbrachte. Wenige Monate später arrangierten Kennedy und der RCA-Chef David Sarnoff einen Zusammenschluss, aus dem die RKO Pictures, eines der „Großen Fünf“ der Studiozeit Hollywoods, hervorgingen. (de)
  • Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an Anglo-American import-export company. Robertson-Cole began distributing films in the United States that December and opened a Los Angeles production facility in 1920. Late that year, R-C entered into a working relationship with East Coast financier Joseph P. Kennedy. A business reorganization in 1922 led to the company's assumption of the new FBO name. Two years later, the studio contracted with Western leading man Fred Thomson, who within a couple years was one of Hollywood's most popular stars. Thomson was just one of several silent screen cowboys with whom FBO became identified. The studio, whose core market was America's small towns, also put out many romantic melodramas, action pictures, and comedic shorts. Pauline Frederick and Sessue Hayakawa were the major stars of its R-C period. Subsequently, Evelyn Brent and Richard Talmadge were FBO's biggest non-Western stars. From 1925 on, adaptations of the works of Gene Stratton-Porter were consistently among its top box office attractions. In 1926, Kennedy led an investment group that acquired the company; he relocated to California to run it, with considerable success. Exhibitors cited The Keeper of the Bees, based on a Stratton-Porter novel, as the year's most popular film. In August 1928, using RCA Photophone technology, FBO became the second Hollywood studio to release a feature-length "talkie". Two months later, Kennedy and RCA chief David Sarnoff arranged the merger between FBO and the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater circuit that created RKO, one of the major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. FBO's assets were folded into the new company, and it was dissolved in early 1929. (en)
  • Le Film Booking Offices of America, ou FBO, était un studio de production américain pendant l'ère du cinéma muet. Cette société produisait la plupart du temps des films à petit budget. Son commerce a commencé avec Robertson-Cole, la division américaine de la compagnie anglaise d'import-export. Robertson-Cole ont initié la production de film en 1920 ; deux ans plus tard, ils se réorganisèrent sous le nom de la FBO. En 1923, le studio a contracté avec l'acteur Fred Thomson de Western, qui deviendra l'un des acteurs les plus populaires d'Hollywood. L'entreprise, dont le siège se situait dans une petite ville américaine, produisait également des mélodrames romantiques, des films d'action, et des courts métrages de comédie. En 1928, grâce au Photophone de la RCA, la FBO devint le second studio à sortir un long métrage parlant. En octobre 1928, RCA qui avait acheté FBO à Kennedy annonce la fusion de FBO et Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) ce qui marque la naissance de RKO Pictures. (fr)
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  • Assets transferred toRadio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (en)
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  • Die Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) (deutsch: „Filmbuchungsbüros Amerikas“; auch: FBO Pictures Corporation) waren ein amerikanisches Filmproduktionsunternehmen der Stummfilmzeit, das sich vor allem mit Low-Budget-Filmen beschäftigte. Das Unternehmen begann als amerikanische Zweigstelle einer britischen Außenhandelsfirma unter dem Namen Robertson-Cole (U.S.). Robertson-Cole produzierte seit 1920 eigene Filme und benannte sich 1922 in Film Booking Offices of America um. 1923 schloss das Studio einen Vertrag mit dem Western-Darsteller Fred Thomson, der bald zu einem der beliebtesten Stars Hollywoods wurde. Thomson war nur einer von zahlreichen Leinwand-Cowboys, die das Image von FBO prägten. (de)
  • Film Booking Offices of America (FBO), registered as FBO Pictures Corp., was an American film studio of the silent era, a midsize producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as Robertson-Cole, an Anglo-American import-export company. Robertson-Cole began distributing films in the United States that December and opened a Los Angeles production facility in 1920. Late that year, R-C entered into a working relationship with East Coast financier Joseph P. Kennedy. A business reorganization in 1922 led to the company's assumption of the new FBO name. Two years later, the studio contracted with Western leading man Fred Thomson, who within a couple years was one of Hollywood's most popular stars. Thomson was just one of several silent screen cowboys with whom FB (en)
  • Le Film Booking Offices of America, ou FBO, était un studio de production américain pendant l'ère du cinéma muet. Cette société produisait la plupart du temps des films à petit budget. Son commerce a commencé avec Robertson-Cole, la division américaine de la compagnie anglaise d'import-export. Robertson-Cole ont initié la production de film en 1920 ; deux ans plus tard, ils se réorganisèrent sous le nom de la FBO. En 1923, le studio a contracté avec l'acteur Fred Thomson de Western, qui deviendra l'un des acteurs les plus populaires d'Hollywood. (fr)
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