RCA Photophone - List of Licensees

List of Licensees

Primary (major producer) RCA (Photophone) licensees include:

• Walt Disney Productions
• RKO Radio Pictures (liquidated)
• Republic Pictures (liquidated)
• Warner Bros.-First National

Secondary (minor producer or subsidiary) RCA licensees include:

• Four Star Television (liquidated)
• Jam Handy Organization (liquidated)
• Revue Productions (later integrated into Universal Studios)
• Screen Gems (later integrated into Columbia Pictures)
• TCF-TV (later integrated into Twentieth Century-Fox)

Primary (major producer) Western Electric (Westrex) licensees include:

• Columbia Pictures
• Samuel Goldwyn (liquidated)
• London Film Productions (liquidated)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Paramount Pictures
• Rank Organisation (liquidated)
• Selznick International (liquidated; all productions except "Gone With the Wind" are now owned by ABC/Cap Cities, with The Walt Disney Company as its successor)
• Twentieth Century-Fox
• Universal Pictures

Secondary (minor producer or subsidiary) Western Electric licensees include:

• Fleischer Studios-Famous Studios/Paramount (later integrated into Paramount Pictures)
• Glen Glenn Sound (later integrated into Todd-AO)
• Robert L. Lippert (liquidated)
• Monogram Pictures (liquidated)
• (Fox) Movietone News (liquidated)
• Ryder Sound Services (liquidated; sometimes credited as Sound Services Incorporated)
• Technicolor
• Todd-AO
• Warner Bros. Vitaphone (uncredited, as Technicolor both processed the picture and re-recorded the sound track negative to its standards)
• Ziv Television (later integrated into United Artists)