Film Booking Offices of America (
FBO) (also known as
FBO Pictures Corporation) was an American film studio of the
silent era, a producer and distributor of mostly low-budget films. The business began in 1918 as
Robertson-Cole (U.S.), the American division of a
British import–export company and Robertson-Cole was formed by the English-born Harry F. Robertson and the American Rufus Sidman Cole. Robertson-Cole bought the Hallmark Exchanges (formerly the
Mutual Exchanges that became known as Exhibitors-Mutual Exchanges) from Frank J. Hall in 1920. Exhibitors-Mutual/Hallmark had distributed Robertson-Cole product, and acquiring the exchanges gave them the right to distribute their own films plus Hall's product, with the exception of
Charlie Chaplin reissues he had the rights to.