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32 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
including a mandolin and banjo quintette, a contralto solo, a string quartette, a harp number, and a musical selection given by the General Electric Band. The development of this device represents several years of experimental research work in the laboratories of the General Electric Company.
The R. C. A.-Photophone, Incorporated, a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America, was then formed to exploit the sound system, and on May 14, 1928, this organization, through a page advertisement in New York and Los Angeles newspapers, announced the perfection of the apparatus. The advertisement was taken by many in the industry as an official notice of the Radio Corporation that they were entering the field of motion picture entertainment. Shortly afterward the Radio Corporation of America, through a subsidiary, the Radio-KeithOrpheum Company, acquired the B. F. Keith and Orpheum chain of theatres throughout the country, as well as the F. B. O. Producing Company. Subsequently F. B. O. was changed to R. K. O., the initials of the names, Radio, Keith, Orpheum.
Through this producing organization pictures including sound were introduced to the public. The first efforts along these lines were limited to the presentation of musical accompaniment, and the first picture was The Perfect Crime, which, by the way, included some dialogue sequences. Important stage successes were acquired by the R. K. O. producing organization, including the very successful Rio Rita, which at this writing is in production.
On February 9, 1929, the R. K. O. Productions, Incorporated, announced that they had selected "Radio Pictures" as the trade name for R. K. O. productions, which is the motion picture producing and distributing unit of the RadioKeith-Orpheum Corporation, sponsored by the Radio Corporation of America, the R. C. A.