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Timeline of Paramount pictures logo from 1921 to 2009
The second first logo history I ever did on this YouTube channel has finall... "Paramount Pictures Logo History (Updated)" made by TR3X PR0DÚCTÍ0NS, 25/12/2019.
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Feb 1, 2024 · Evolution of Paramount logo intro in: Roman Holiday (1953)Vertigo (1958)Psycho (1960)Once Upon A Time in the West (1969)King Kong (1976)Raiders of the lost a...
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Feb 14, 2018 · The Paramount logo may have changed over the past one hundred years, but its core foundation, the mountain, was present all the way back in the beginning. The exact origins of the logo are shrouded in mystery and are now firmly in the realm of Hollywood legend, but it's commonly accepted that the original mountain was based on the ranges seen by William Wadsworth Hodkinson during his youth in ...
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- 1914
- 1914–1917
- 1917–1968
- 1967–Present
Despite Paramount Pictures as a film studio being established on May 8, 1912, the actual Paramount Pictures name first materialized in 1914, during the company's early years as a distribution company. Paramount would become a wholly owned division of Famous Players Film Companyat around 1916.
During this period in 1914, Paramount's logo (designed by William Wadsworth Hodkinson) consisted of a drawing of a mountain peak placed inside a circular field of 29 stars with the company name in a script font, a design which has since been passed onto all of the company's subsequent logo designs.
Compared to the previous logo, this one was simplified, and the number of stars was decreased to 24, one for every actor that had a contract with the studio at the time. This logo was still used in the byline on the Paramount Televisionlogo until 1968.
In November 1967, Paramount modified the logo by removing the clouds at the foot of the mountain, and then updated the text to drop the word "Pictures". Two of the stars were also dropped, reducing the number to 22. Despite this, the logo was never updated on-screen to this variant until 1974.
Jan 10, 2021 · In 1953, Jan Domela painted the mountain and added the trees around the mountain, which debuted on-film in 1953. In 1968, starting with the film The Odd Couple, a byline was added that reads A Gulf + Western Company. Also the words "A" and "Picture" were removed. There is also a variant for 35mm open matte film scan prints, where the logo is zoomed out to a much farther distance to reveal more ...
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