Watch: Columbia Footage Celebrates 100 Years of Movies in Video Tribute

by Alex Billington
December 21, 2024
Supply: YouTube

“It is showtime, of us!” Columbia Footage celebrated its one centesimal birthday in 2024. Because the 12 months involves an finish, Sony Footage (who now owns Columbia) launched a tribute video celebrating the film studios’ 100 years. “For our one centesimal birthday, we have a good time you.” The video options varied filmmakers, actors, and lots of different staff at Columbia speaking about why they love Columbia films, a few of their favourite films and moments, and the legacy of the studio. Disney and Warner Bros celebrated their one centesimal birthday final 12 months, as each of those studios had been based in 1923. Columbia Footage, at the very least this iconic Hollywood identify, was created in 1924 by Harry & Jack Cohn and Joe Brandt (initially referred to as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn CBC Movie Gross sales Company till they modified this identify in Jan 1924). Columbia’s most commercially profitable franchises embody Spider-Man, Jumanji, Unhealthy Boys, Males in Black, The Karate Child, Robert Langdon, & Ghostbusters, and the studio’s highest-grossing film worldwide is Spider-Man: No Method House incomes $1.92 billion. The final time they received Greatest Image was for 1987’s The Final Emperor. Get pleasure from this warm-hearted tribute beneath. Should you’re on the lookout for extra to observe, they launched this live-stream with 100 trailers from 100 years proper right here.

Columbia Pictures Celebrates 100 Years

“That girl has been holding up that lamp for a brilliant very long time…” “Effectively finished, girl.” Ha ha – sure certainly. That girl is definitely Girl Columbia or Miss Columbia – the unique feminine nationwide personification of america. The long-lasting film studio is formally 100 years outdated in response to their identify change. Through Wiki: On June 19, 1918, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their enterprise companion Joe Brandt based the studio as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Movie Gross sales Company. It adopted the Columbia Footage identify on January 10, 1924 (working as Columbia Footage Company till December 23, 1968) went public two years later and ultimately started to make use of the picture of Columbia, the feminine personification of america, as its emblem. Their large break got here within the late Twenties after they partnered with filmmaker Frank Capra and began making screwball comedies – their greatest early hits had been The Three Stooges and It Occurred One Night time (in 1934). Sony Footage purchased them in 1991 although they nonetheless run it as Columbia anyway. The studio has been positioned on the previous Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (at the moment often called the Sony Footage Studios) lot in Culver Metropolis, California since 1990. For updates and a glance again at their 100 years, go to the celebration web site right here.