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The following are lists of Paramount Pictures films by decade: Logo used since 2022. Lists. List of Paramount Pictures films (1912–1919)
A version of the print logo had been in use by Paramount Television since 1968, for the first movie of the 1975 horror movie Bug (1975) at the end. A black and white logo with "A Paramount Picture" appeared in the 1980 live action film Popeye, resembling the one used on Paramount's classic Popeye cartoon shorts.
Release date Title Notes January 10, 1914: An American Citizen: lost January 20, 1914: The Day of Days: lost February 10, 1914: Hearts Adrift: lost February 12, 1914
William Wadsworth Hodkinson (August 16, 1881 – June 2, 1971), known more commonly as W. W. Hodkinson, was born in Independence, Kansas.Known as The Man Who Invented Hollywood, [1] he opened one of the first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 1907 and within just a few years changed the way movies were produced, distributed, and exhibited.
Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912). [6]
Its first actual production was The Count of Monte Cristo (1912, released 1913), directed by Joseph A. Golden and Edwin S. Porter and starring James O'Neill, the father of dramatist Eugene O'Neill. In 1914, the company purchased the former headquarters of New York City's Ninth Mounted Cavalry unit at 221 West 26th Street in Manhattan. [1]
Studio logos are powerful signals to audiences. Multiple generations of moviegoers flipping through channels or scanning streaming titles have frozen at the sight of a desk lamp hopping across the ...
The evolution of Paramount; 1886: Westinghouse Electric Corporation is founded as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company: 1912: Famous Players Film Company is founded: 1913: Lasky Feature Play Company is founded: 1914: Paramount Pictures is founded: 1916: Famous Players and Lasky merge as Famous Players–Lasky and acquire Paramount: 1927