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  1. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate ...

  2. Jan 9, 2013 · Columbia Pictures, one of the studios that reigned during Hollywood’s golden age, has had a rich and interesting story. Of the eight Studios that “owned” the movie business by the end of the 1920’s, Columbia Pictures had the worst reputation and smallest budgets.

  3. 3 days ago · Background. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film studio and production company owned by the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and one of the major American film studios.

  4. The company rebranded in 1924 and revealed the first official Columbia Pictures logo. This time the logo showed an oval shape with a woman in the center and the company name above it. This design was entirely in black and white, with only a rough outline of the woman instead of a full design.

  5. Feb 20, 2022 · Learn the story behind the iconic logo of the lady holding the torch that you see at the beginning of every Columbia Pictures movie. It was based on a photo taken by Kathy Anderson in her apartment in 1991, using simple props and a model named Jenny Joseph.

  6. Background: Following a reorganizatio n, the Cohn brothers renamed the predecessor company as "Columbia Pictures Corporation" on January 10, 1924. Columbia's product line consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and a short-subject program of comedies, serials, cartoons, and sports films.

  7. Sep 7, 2016 · The Columbia Pictures Torch Lady has been gracing the silver screen ever since the company was first founded in 1924, but her real life persona would remain unknown until Michael Deas was commissioned to create a new matte painting in the 1990s.