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'''Visuals:''' On a {{color|darkgray|dark gray}} background with arch clouds below, we see a woman dressed in a Roman soldier's outfit (similar to the Greco-Roman goddess Athena/Minerva), crowned with a wreath and covered in a toga, holding a shield in her left hand and holding an olive branch in her right hand. | '''Visuals:''' On a {{color|darkgray|dark gray}} background with arch clouds below, we see a woman dressed in a Roman soldier's outfit (similar to the Greco-Roman goddess Athena/Minerva), crowned with a wreath and covered in a toga, holding a shield in her left hand and holding an olive branch in her right hand. There is the text "COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION Presents", with "COLUMBIA PICTURES" arched above, "CORPORATION" underneath it in a straight line, and "Presents" below. | ||
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*1928-1932: | *1928-1932: There is a medium shot of a lady holding a light torch in her right hand, depicted with a dark bob and a Cleopatra-esque headdress across her forehead. She is draped in an American flag complete with the stars on her left shoulder and the stripes coming across her middle, supported by her left arm, and hanging down her right side. Her torch is displayed with a rather primitive, flickering style of animation emitting lines of light as rays. The Torch Lady's head is under an arch of chiseled, square-shaped letters reading the words "COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION". | ||
*1932-1936: Same as before, but the words are replaced with "A COLUMBIA PRODUCTION" and the typeface is different. | *1932-1936: Same as before, but the words are replaced with "A COLUMBIA PRODUCTION" and the typeface is different. | ||
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'''Visuals:''' | '''Visuals:''' There is the lady, this time standing on top of a pedestal with a backdrop of clouds over her, while she is holding her light torch. Much more refined, ethereal and goddess-like, her facial features are less pronounced and she looks away (up and to the right) instead of straight ahead. Her headdress is absent and her hair sweeps back instead of hanging by the sides of her face. The drape over her shoulder is less obviously an American flag, with the stars on the left shoulder being toned down in a shadow, and the stripes are visible only on the portion of the drape hanging down her right side. "A COLUMBIA PRODUCTION" is replaced with the tall chiseled letters of "COLUMBIA" (which fades in a second afterward) running straight across the top section of the screen, with the lady's torch glowing in front of the "U". A new form of animation is used on the logo as well, with a torch that radiates light instead of flickers. Until the mid-1960s, this logo would also appear at the end of films, sometimes with the words "The End" in a script font. | ||
'''Trivia:''' The model in this and the next two logos is Pittsburgh native Jane Chester Bartholomew, who was discovered by Harry Cohn himself. After she left acting in the 1960s, Bartholomew became a nursing inspector with the Chicago Board of Health. She died in 2012. | '''Trivia:''' The model in this and the next two logos is Pittsburgh native Jane Chester Bartholomew, who was discovered by Harry Cohn himself. After she left acting in the 1960s, Bartholomew became a nursing inspector with the Chicago Board of Health. She died in 2012. | ||
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* 1981-1990: | * 1981-1990: There is the standard Columbia Torch Lady (a somewhat less detailed version of her 1970s iteration) standing on a pedestal with her torch against the backdrop of clouds (which are now slightly less detailed and have a {{color|blue|blueish}} tone). The torch then shines into a bright abstract shape, as if in a sunburst, then dims back in place. The words "{{color|#FFA500|'''Columbia Pictures'''}}" (in the same font as the last logo) fade to the left and right of the Torch Lady as her torch shines. | ||
* 1989-1993: The logo fades in just like the 1981 version, but the sunburst animation is omitted (however, one can still see a glimpse of the {{color|red}} light from the sunburst if one looks closely). Instead, after a second, the "{{color|#FFA500|'''Columbia Pictures'''}}" text fades in (a la the 1936-1976 logo). | * 1989-1993: The logo fades in just like the 1981 version, but the sunburst animation is omitted (however, one can still see a glimpse of the {{color|red}} light from the sunburst if one looks closely). Instead, after a second, the "{{color|#FFA500|'''Columbia Pictures'''}}" text fades in (a la the 1936-1976 logo). | ||