Thoroughly enjoyed this, love videos that focus on the history of companies. As a movie buff, I can't think of a better series than the history of film industry companies. Also, the production quality on this was great, loved the noir theme. Keep 'em coming!
May I tell you my own personal experience of Paramount? In the late 1970s, I was a newly divorced single mother working around Hollywood as a secretary and production gofer. At Paramount, one of my bosses was a writer who was making $600 a day (a LOT of $$ in those days) he was always broke because he was putting his salary up his nose. He was definitely not alone. The thievery and corruption on the Paramount lot was astronomical. Executive were stealing their secretaries typewriters, lot messenger's bicycles and anything they could get their hands on to support their drug habits. In addition, Paramount was the filthiest, worst run lot imaginable. Rats and grime was everywhere. The studio politics were worse with everything being about making more and more money and little about making something they actually cared about (I often wondered if the problems on that lot had something to do with the fact that it backed up on and shared a wall with the crematorium at the Hollywood cemetery) . No wonder shows like Happy Days had closed sets so the studio execs couldn't interfere. I was actually overjoyed when the productions I was working on were cancelled and I was let go. I got a job at Columbia. I worked hard and Columbia rewarded me with promotions until I had two secretaries and an assistant of my own. Paramount, hopefully has changed greatly over the years, but it was horrible back then.
Enjoyed you perspective,moving to now what are your thoughts on the Paramount sale, should David Ellison/Skydance or Sony/Apollo group buy it,and your thoughts on the potential it may be broken up.
I am actually about to start working at the Paramount Studios tomorrow as a PA/Runner so it’s great to get the company history. Excellent job on the video.
Thinking UA next because they have a really important role in creating Modern Hollywood but we're going to be revisiting other series before we circle back.
It is interesting how many times they tried and failed to get into being a TV network. Seems like FOX was honestly a rarity, Though they hit big with The Simpsons, NFL, In Living Color. I think that was the big issue with UPN, they kinda lacked a killer program and you cant ride a fledgling network on just Star Trek Voyager which I believe was one of its launch shows.
Yeah, if you give UPN the likes of both WWE Raw AND WWE SmackDown, along with Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise, along with their reality TV show like America's Next Top Model, and their sitcoms like Everybody Hates Chris, Girlfriends, The Game, One on One, Half & Half, Moesha, The Parkers, Eve, and All of Us, and you keep UPN under Paramount, instead of Les Moonves & CBS, then UPN would've been a MAJOR success.
Paramount Pictures was the greatest movie studios in Hollywood and my favorite Paramount movies are Goin’ to Town (1935), Airplane! (1980), Escape From Alcatraz (1979), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Top Gun (1986), Patriot Games (1992), The Godfather Part II (1974), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
@@ArMartz Universal owns Paramount's pre 1950 library and post 1950 famous studios library.Warner Bros owns the Popeye and Superman Cartoons made by Paramount
Some of my favorite Paramount films include: Duck Soup (1933) Gulliver's Travels (1939) The Stooge (1952) Saturday Night Fever (1978) Cheech And Chong Up In Smoke (1978) Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996) South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999) Team America: World Police (2004)
I know for sure that Colbert is pronounced correctly (or at least that's how they introduced her at an AFI event). It's Stephen Colbert that mispronounces his last name... His family doesn't even use the foo-foo French Col-BEAR... Especially since the name is Irish not French. Goddard... Well... Yeah, no one ever accused me of being perfect. :)
Thank you so much for the lowdown on the history if true cinema I’m 57 yrs old and some this history I lived through so I know it to be true.when we were growing up in the 60s it was a great time for new TV shows and the birth of TV as we knew..... now the landscape is full or crowded with content (mostly undesired) I wonder what the future hold for great content and not just gimmicky features and overexposed Television (a.k.a.) “Reality TV”)
Reality TV ain't dead but I think they found their niche... Lots of good documentary out there that is essentially reality, luckily it isn't all housewives of and fake drama (that's what 24 hour news is for). And with Netflix in the mix, everyone's trying to up their game. It's certainly not the world that the writers feared during the last writer's strike.
Hey he forgot psycho and Zukors death and what about Viacom paramount park theme park company Nickelodeon mtv spike tv Comedy Central vh-1 and many other stuff also waynes world sonic rocket man Gump Friday the 13th clue Nickelodeon movies and many more
The Nickelodeon theater is it way before the tv channel towards anyone not just kids in 1977 it doesn’t make sense because do they hows I don’t know it would been something else before nick before all that spongebob jimmy neutron fairy oddparents kca barnyard Tak mr meaty faboulous drake and josh my cousin Skeetan if that’s the nick shows with a puppet like muppet show and many more ok nick do you or anyone know you can’t do that on telelvision from the 80s it’s way before all the other shows it roginally came out in Canada in 1979 and came out in 1981 in America and about the channel is that how hey go the name after the movies theaters from the 1910s 1920s or other decades its way before nick games Nickelodeon studios nick on sunset and others
Hey dreamworks before shrek Madagascar how to train your dragon the croods mr Peabody’s don Sherman trolls boss baby captain underpants turbo Netflix shows based on movies why does dreamworks do this these days dreamworks on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network like penguins of Madagascar how to train your dragon kung fu panda monsters vs aliens they did shows on both channels why doesn’t dreamworks do that today on both channels own by time warner and Viacom dreamworks has rights to put shows on their ok man the old days before dreamworks nick Cartoon Network Disney before internet memes youtube Austin powers and lots of others you know like the 1910s when movies rise and it’s before tv shows and televisions were made
Lurker1979 Les Moonves is fighting the merger tooth & nail and almost the whole CBS board is backing him, so Shari Redstone may well not get the CBS/Viacom reunion she wants after all.
Let me rephrase that, CBS Corporation owned Paramount Parks in 2006, By the time the corporate split was finalized, CBS Corporation was headed by Les Moonves, On June 30th, 2006, CBS sold Paramount Parks to Cedar Fair.
This is my favorite video. I love Paramount and it's parent subsidiary, Viacom (the old Viacom that is). Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky are one of the greatest movie moguls ever (aside from Louis B. Mayer, Jack L. Warner, Marcus Loew, Irving Thalberg, Carl Lamillie, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Cohn, and William Fox).
This studios is one of my favorites... my Paramount favorites are: - The Godfather (1972) - The Godfather Part II (1974) - Braveheart (1995) - Titanic (1997) - Interstellar (2014) - It's a Beautiful Life (1946) - The Untouchables (1987) - Face/Off (1997) - Mision: Impossible III (2006) - Ghost (1990) - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) - Top Gun (1986) - Babel (2006) - Vertigo (1958) and Forrest Gump (1994)
Claudette Colbert’s last name was pronounced “col-bear” in the French style, and Marlene Dietrich was pronounced “mar-lean-uh” “dee-trick”. I guess I’m old because I heard these names pronounced many times.
What about "Paulette GoddARD"? Lots of boners in this video, like "the financial of the late 1920s and early 1930s" - the market crashed two months before 1930.
I feel bad for you, guys. The views are not as good as they should. You put such an effort into your videos everytime and the outcome is awesome - I haven´t seen that quality on RU-vid whatsoever. Keep on, please!!
Lol lol I’m not a fortune teller then you cut to another angle and continue your line..... lol I love it. And the dark film noir look as well. Lol lol kool
StudioCanal, Woodfall Films, Janus Films, Orion Pictures, Carolco, ITC, Rank, UA, De Laurentis Entertainment Group, Lorimar, RKO, Samuel Goldwyn... Would love to see those
A Brief History of Universal Studios A Brief History of United Artists A Brief History of Warner Bros. A Brief History of RKO A Brief History of The Walt Disney Company A Brief History of Metro Goldwyn Mayer A Brief History of Columbia Pictures A Brief History of Republic Pictures A Brief History of 20th Century Fox
I personally thank Paramount for being one of the factors why MCU is a thing today. If it wasn’t for the release of Iron Man in 2008, MCU wouldn’t exist.
Fun Fact: For Wrestling Fans Out there, United Paramount Network (UPN) was the Channel that Aired *WWE Smackdown* in the United States from 1999 to 2006. Also, The Current Viacom was Merged with CBS to Form ViacomCBS in Late 2019.
Dude if the Hollywood studios keep making multmillion dollar productions flop after flop, they will burn through all that capital that took decades to build. They've lost all originality. I can't think of too many produced the past decade that wasn't a remake or not another super hero crapfest. It's like having spaghetti made from a week old hamburger that itself came from a week old steak from the fridge.
I agree that they can't sustain flops forever... however... they've lost so much money that they aren't going to pay a cent in taxes when they manage to get a hit.
really really enjoyed this! thank you for your hard work and voice. I work on the Paramount lot as an electrician and I run into all these names on a daily basis as building names. Its fantastic to have a story behind them.
Paramount in 1958, the studio did sell their pre-1949 sound movie library of 750 films to MCA (Music Corporation of America) which MCA later bought UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, anyway the Paramount movies that were made between 1929 to 1949 at the studio of Paramount got sold for Television rights to MCA. But before MCA in 1958 a few of those Paramount sound movies were sold to other studios like Warner Brothers, MGM and United Artists such as A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1933), DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1931) and I MARRIED A WITCH (1942). But at the time Paramount sold their pre-1949 sound movie library to MCA, Paramount did decide not to sell a few of their movies to MCA like Cecil B. DeMile's THE BACCANEER (1938), Preston Sturges' THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1943) and SORRY WRONG NUMBER (1948) because of remakes and ownership, but also a few of those Paramount movies entered the Public Domain and could not get renewed. So today the 750 Paramount sound movies from 1929 to 1949 are now a property to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS under the studio's division of EMKA Ltd. Also UNIVERSAL STUDIOS owns a few of the Alfred Hitchcock films that were made at the Paramount Studio between 1954 to 1960 like REAR WINDOW (1954), THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955), THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956), VERTIGO (1958) and PSYHCO (1960) these Paramount films are a part of Hitchcock's Real Estate at UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, but the Paramount Studio today has only one Hitchcock movie that the studio decided not to sell to UNIVERSAL and this film is Alfred Hitchcock's TO CATCH A THIEF (1955). Paramount can not go on losing or selling their most valuable piece of films that the studio once made.
As of March 2020, Paramount Studios just announced that the company is going to release 3 of our favorite Paramount classics on Blu-Ray for the very first time ever this year first is KING CREOLE (1958) with Elvis Presley, second is John Hughes' PRETTY IN PINK (1986) and third Eddie Murphy's THE GOLDEN CHILD (1986). I am very excited for their Blu-Ray debut and I am sure you are! Go Paramount!
My favorite Paramount film is Nickelodeon's RUGRATS IN PARIS: THE MOVIE (2000) which was a commercial success at the same time when Universal's HOW THE CRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000) with Jim Carry as the CRINCH was becoming a successful film also on the Thanksgiving holiday season of 2000. But anyway Paramount today owns RUGRATS my childhood memories of the television shows and their 3 animated movies just like the STAR TREK media. I said to myself, "RUGRATS is better than THE SIMPSONS!"
@@dustingriffith7399 interesting. Also don’t forget that Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory was also a Paramount movie that was sold to Warner Bros because the movie flopped at the box office. Did you know that?
Never mentioned that Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens, New York, was originally a Paramount Pictures Studio in the early 1900's. The Marx Bros. filmed there and more. New York was the original film capital.
9:21 I believe it is important that we at least look back at the cartoons because in many ways they've outlived their feature film contemporaries. Ask people who Betty Boop is, and then try asking people who Mae West is.
You’re very welcome looking forward to more history and knowledge. I’m 57 a new film maker. (Record production and song writing prior 35 yrs) please keep this kinda stuff up.
