100 Years of Columbia Pictures – A Photo of the Film Studio

Columbia Pictures was founded in 1924. In the years when the Studio in Hollywood is relatively unaffordable, a start-up with a small budget is the production of the Elite of the Traumfabrik in such a way. In the 1930s Columbia Pictures produced a lucrative film in the Goldenem Zeitalter of Hollywood.

Today Columbia Pictures is one of the biggest film studios and chances are your favorite film will be produced here. In 2024 Columbia Pictures will celebrate its 100th birthday.

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Columbia Pictures was formed on January 10, 1924 by Brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and their partner Joe Brandt.

Before war Columbia under the names Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film sales possible. One of the Veröffentlichungen war 1922 of the Stummfilm “More to be Pitied Than Scorned”.

The legacy of “more to be pitied than despised” war broadcasts is a breach of the rule. CBC has great power and Hollywood’s Elite in the service of its undisputed studio.

The Brothers Cohn started with CBC in Columbia Pictures. Kurz found the logo, which says Columbia, the personal personification of the United States.

When Harry Cohn came out of Columbia in the 1920s, Frank Capra started his studio as a name for his machine.

Capra, an Italian American director, producer and book author, photographed a productive community with Columbia and transformed the studio from a film studio into a hit movie.

In 1934 Capra produced the film “Es geschah in einer Nacht”. The screwball comedy with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert won a full film and won Oscars.

Capra’s 1936 film “Mr. Deeds goes to town” brought the war to a greater conclusion. It won an Oscar for best director and starred Gary Cooper as best actor. Columbia’s status as one of the great Hollywood war studios was destroyed.

Capra’s next film for Columbia from 1937, “In the Falls of Shangri-La”, went over budget and brought Columbia Pictures to the depths of its financial troubles. When the director of the Director and Harry Cohn went a step further.

Capras wrote a film for the Columbia War “Mr. Smith Went to Washington” starring James Stewart. Another part of Succession for the Studio, which received a further Oscar nomination from Capra, was released.

The Howard Hawks War was another director who continued the war from Columbia. Hawks played one of the best screwball comedies of the 30th year of directing, with “Die schreckliche Wahrheit” (1937) and “Sein Mädchen für besondere Fälle” (1940), both with Cary Grant in the Hauptrolle.

Columbia’s biggest star of the 1940s war Rita Hayworth. Also glamorous Leinwandikone hated the actress in more B-movies from Columbia, before playing Fred Astaire’s page in “Reich wirst du nie”.

“Reich got no” war with a film with the biggest budget, the Columbia produced the hat. Derfolg was about a successor of the Combination of Hayworth and Astaire: “Du warst ni berückender” in the year 1942.

In this war Harry Cohn der Versuchung wider stands, Farbfilme zu produzieren. The war in Columbia goes through the big studios, which the colonial development has lasted for a while. 1943 began with Western “The Desperadoes” with Randolph Scott and Glen Ford in the lead roles of the first film film of the studios.

In Rolle’s role as president of Columbia Pictures, Harry Cohn has a major Einfluss in Hollywood. A war has begun for a strict and unbridled art and a war for a more powerful Geschäftsmann. Cohn leads the Studio with the first half of the fifties and a magnificent multi-million dollar success story by Sam Katzman.

In the Zwischenzeit, Columbia entered with the production of high quality Neuland and the generation of great Kinoeinnahmen, “Verdammt in alle Ewigkeit” (1953), “Die Faust im Nacken” (1954) and “Die Brücke am Kwai” (1957).

Jack Cohn died in 1956. Two years apart, on February 27, 1958, followed by Harry Cohn. Zur Gedachten in the Columbia studios played “Adel” from Hollywood with James Stewart, Kim Novak and Danny Kaye among others.

The year of counterculture and social revolution began in Columbia, alt-fashioned films that made the epic “Lawrence von Arabien” (1962).

In the 1960s, Columbia was the spirit of the cinema with films of Stanley Kubrick’s Anti-Krieg Komödie “Dr. Seltsam or: Wie ich leer, die Bombe zu lieben” (1964).

Columbia’s “Ratet mal, wer zum Essen kommt” (1967) by director Stanley Kramer was one of the best films of the time, which returned a couple from black and white into a positive light.

Columbia has carried out the 60s year with a classic anti-bewegung “Easy Rider”. After the Studio has developed, a number of Kino-Missers follow. An agent Revolution has arrested her.

Collaboration, mergers and new partnerships defined Columbia Pictures’ business model in the early 1970s. The studio went green on Columbia Pictures Publications’ television show tab and was included in Columbia Pictures Television’s television show tab.

In the 1970s, Jaren Columbia financed one of the think and cultural films. Such as the Zelluloid classics “Taxi Driver” (1976), Steven Spielberg’s “Unheimliche Begegnung der drieten Art” (1977) and the legal drama “Kramer gegen Kramer” (1979) – everything that has been done with care and respect.

1982 Columbia was purchased from Coca-Cola. Enjoy TriStar Pictures with the Studio of Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.

The setting of British film producers David Puttman as chef of Columbia 1986 fell experts who see the augenbrau high. For his merits counted “12 Uhr nachten – Midnight Express” (1978), “Die Stunde des Siegers” (1981), “The Killing Fields – Schreiendes Land” (1984) and “Mission” (1986). An engagement would no longer be possible now. Criticism of American film productions and the leisure of some misses are often published in the following years.

1989 Columbia was purchased by Sony Corporation. The war between the big cities is an American enterprise by a Japanese firm. Sony Corp. blew away 3.4 billion US dollars for its prize in Hollywood.

The company is known as Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. and is the division of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

In the 2000s Columbia and Sony began a huge expansion. All in 2002 found the blockbuster “Spider-Man”, “Men in Black II” and “XXX” Kinoeinnahmen in a price of 1.575 million dollars.

In December 2021, Columbia re-released “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The film grossed over $1 million at the box office and would go on to become a major box office hit.

2024 – at 100. Year of the best pictures from Columbia Pictures – a new film has been released, including “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” and “Garfield – An extra portion”.

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