RKO Radio Pictures 1942-1943 Annual: RKO's "Victory Program"

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RKO Radio Pictures 1942-1943 Annual: RKO's "Victory Program"
Los Angeles:
RKO Radio Pictures,
1941.
First Edition, large quarto. The deluxe annual for RKO Studios' 1942-1943 season, billed as RKO's "Victory Program," to commemorate the studio's World War II efforts.
Featured in this annual are full color advertisements for Disney's "Bambi," as well as 18 single-reel Disney featurettes, two Tarzan films: "Tarzan Triumphs" and "Tarzan and the Sheik," a remarkable number of war films including: Fred Astaire's "Look Out Below," Orson Welles's "Journey Into Fear," "The Navy Comes Through," "Stand By to Die," "China Sky," "Bombardier," "Seven Days' Leave," "Wings and the Woman," "This Land is Mine," "Army Surgeon," and "Hitler's Children."
Also included are Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers's "Once Upon a Honeymoon," the "Maltese Falcon" sequel "The Falcon's Brother," horror films "The Cat People," and "I Walked with a Zombie," and films "The Gibson Girl," "The Big Street," "Here We Go Again," "The Pride of the Yankees," "They Got Me Covered," "Stand by to Die," "Cheyenne," "Grand Canyon," "Bundles For Freedom," "Forever and a Day," "7th Victim," "Seven Miles from Alcatraz," "Lum & Abner," "Mexican Spitfire's Elephant," "Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event," "Ladies' Day," "Highways by Night," "The Great Gildersleeve," "Gildersleeve's Bad Day," "The Leopard Man," "Scattergood Survives a Murder," "Scattergood Swings It," six Tim Holt westerns: "A Son of the Saddle," "Singing Guns," "Pirates of the Prairie," "Red River Robin Hood," "Gun Law," and "The Avenging Rider," a "This is America" nonfiction shorts series, 104 yearly news shorts, four dramatizations of famous jury trials, and 13 one-reel musicals, as well as a number of sports highlights, informational spots on World War II, two-reel comedies, and the two-reel feature "La Cucaracha."
Three color card wrappers and red comb binding. 66 pages. Very Good condition,I am in no way a appraiser this is in amazing shape for its age and from the research i have done this does present to me to be a first edition program commemorating the war.
program book measures: 14" x 11" x 5/8"
PLEASE SEE PICTURES FOR STYLE AND CONDITION.