Below the box, we see, in a large font, "ALL RIGHTS RESERVED". Below Zukor's name, we see the words "NEW YORK CITY". Below this, we see the words "ADOLPH ZUKOR, PRESIDENT" in a slightly smaller font. Inside the box, we see the words "FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORPORATION" in a large font. At the top of the box, we see "COPYRIGHT ". Each has a ring of stars inside a ring the one the right reads "Paramount Pictures", and the other has some more text. There is text overlapping the mountain reading:Īt the bottom of the screen is a box with two Paramount pseudo-logos on either side. Somewhere on the screen, we see a snow-capped mountain poking out of a cloud at the bottom, surrounded by a ring of stars. LASKY PRESENT" (films produced on both coasts).īelow, we see the title of the film and more info. LASKY PRESENTS" (films produced on the West Coast). " ADOLPH ZUKOR PRESENTS" (films produced on the East Coast).Logo: We see one of the following bylines at the top of the screen: On February 16, 2022, ViacomCBS was renamed Paramount Global (or simply Paramount for short), named after the studio. On August 13, 2019, it was announced that Viacom and CBS would reunite and merge to form ViacomCBS the merger was completed on December 4, 2019. Paramount relaunched its Paramount Television division (now known as "Paramount Television Studios") on March 4, 2013. Television rights to Paramount's library are currently handled by Trifecta Entertainment & Media. On December 31, 2005, Viacom split into two companies: one retaining its original name (inheriting Paramount, MTV Networks and BET Networks) and the other being named CBS Corporation (inheriting Paramount's television production and distribution arms, currently known as CBS Studios, CBS Media Ventures and Paramount Global Content Distribution, respectively), with both companies owned by National Amusements. On March 11, 1994, Paramount Communications was merged with Viacom. As part of the acquisition by Gulf+Western, Lucille Ball's Desilu Productions and the Desilu lot were brought under Paramount's control and, in 1967, Desilu was renamed to Paramount Television. On March 24, 1966, Paramount was acquired by Gulf+Western Industries, which later became Paramount Communications on June 5, 1989. In 1959, Adolph Zukor stepped down from running the studio and assumed the role of chairman, which he held until 1964. Paramount Pictures, Inc., resulted in studios being forced to divest themselves of their theater holdings and, in addition to the concurrent rise of television, would mark the beginning of the end for the old "studio system". In 1948, Paramount was taken to the United States Supreme Court. ![]() Lasky left Paramount in 1932, with Zukor blaming him for the studio's financial issues at the time. In 1914, Famous Players was renamed Paramount Pictures Corporation. ![]() DeMille, a stage director with virtually no film experience, as their first employee DeMille would find a suitable location site in Hollywood for his first film The Squaw Man (1914). Lasky opened the Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law - the founder of Goldwyn Pictures (later part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios) Samuel Goldfish (later known as Samuel Goldwyn). That same year, fellow aspiring producer Jesse L. By 1913, Famous Players had completed five films and Zukor was on his way to success. ![]() With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman, he planned to offer motion pictures that would appeal to the middle class by featuring leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "famous players in famous plays"). He had been an early investor in nickelodeons (film theaters that cost 5 cents for admission), and saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. Paramount traces its history back to May 8, 1912, when it was originally founded as Famous Players Film Company by Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor. Paramount Pictures is the second oldest-running movie studio in Hollywood (second only to Universal Pictures, which was founded eight days earlier). See Category:Paramount Pictures Background
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