Paramount Pictures: Difference between revisions

<u>Background:</u> Paramount traces its history back to May 8, 1912 when it was originally founded as Famous Players Film Company by the Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons (film theaters that cost 5 cents admission), saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman, he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "famous players in famous plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films and Zukor was on his way to success. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, who was later known as "Samuel Goldwyn". The Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with no virtually film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a suitable location site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles for his first film called ''The Squaw Man''.

=== Logo (1912-1916) ===

<u>Background:</u> Beginning in 1914, the former company was renamed Paramount Pictures Corporation, as the second oldest running movie studio in Hollywood, with Universal Studios being founded only eight days earlier. On March 24, 1966, Paramount was acquired by Gulf+Western Industries, which later became Paramount Communications on June 5, 1989. On March 11, 1994, Paramount Communications was merged with Viacom. On December 31, 2005, Viacom split into two companies: one retaining its original name (which owns the BET Networks, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures) and the other which was once the old Viacom but currently known as the "CBS Corporation" (which owns Paramount's television production and distribution arms, currently known as CBS Television Studios, CBS Television Distribution, and CBS Studios International, respectively); both companies are owned by National Amusements, Inc. Television rights to Paramount's library are now handled by Trifecta Entertainment and Media. On August 13, 2019, it was announced that the two companies will reunite and merge to form ViacomCBS; the merger was completed on December 4, 2019.

 

===1st Logo (1914-1917?)===

=== 2nd Logo (1912?-February 15, 1927) ===

===3rd Logo (January 18, 1926-May 17, 1955)===

===4th Logo (1934-1949)===

===5th Logo (December 23, 1950-October 7, 1953)===

===6th Logo (May 27, 1953-September 24, 1975)===

===7th Logo (October 8, 1975-December 12, 1986)===

===8th Logo (December 12, 1986-February 4, 2003)===

===9th Logo (March 1, 2002-2012)===

===10th Logo (December 16, 2011- )===