Columbia Pictures/Availability

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1st: Seen on silent-era Columbia Pictures films, most of which are now lost or survive only in an incomplete form.

  • The following silent-era films from Columbia released during the timeline of this logo are known to be complete: Pal o' Mine, The Midnight Express, The Price She Paid, One Glorious Night, Tainted Money, Who Cares, Charley's Aunt, An Enemy of Men, The Unwritten Law. The Price of Success, The New Champion, The Great Sensation, When Husbands Flirt, A Fight to the Finish, S.O.S. Perils of the Sea, The Fate of a Flirt, The Lure of the Wild, Ladies of Leisure (1926), The Belle of Broadway, The Lone Wolf Returns, When the Wife's Away, Obey the Law, The Better Way, Wandering Girls, The Bachelor's Baby, The Price of Honor, Birds of Prey, Paying the Price, Pleasure Before Business, Poor Girls, Rich Men's Sons, The Romantic Age, The Blood Ship, For Ladies Only, Alias the Lone Wolf, The Clown, The Tigress, The Opening Night, The Warning, and The College Hero. Prints of these films are held in various film libraries, including the George Eastman House and the Library of Congress.
  • It has appeared in the 1999 documentary The Lady with the Torch.
  • This logo also appeared in the 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as part of that film's variant of the 1993 logo.

2nd: Seen on Columbia-owned films from this time period right up until the introduction of the next logo.

  • The logo premiered on That Certain Thing and made its final appearance on Counterfeit.
  • It was seen on It Happened One Night (1934) and Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936).
  • It can also be seen on The Three Stooges releases on DVD.
  • It can also still be seen on reruns of 1934-1936 Three Stooges shorts on IFC, AMC, and Antenna TV.
  • It can also be found on TCM and Sony Movie Channel as well.
  • It does not appear on original prints of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies cartoons from 1930-1932, as Columbia only distributed those shorts.
  • The textless version can be seen on some Three Stooges shorts.

3rd: Can still be seen on Columbia Pictures films of this period on home video formats and on TV airings.

  • The last films to feature this logo were Taxi Driver, Drive-In, Harry and Walter Go to New York, Obsession (at least on U.S. prints), and Peter Bogdanovich's Nickelodeon.
  • The 1973 variation was also seen on some later struck 16mm prints of some Three Stooges shorts, sometimes plastering the Screen Gems logo with the latter logo's music sometimes preserved, with Tricky Dicks and Three Pests in a Mess being common examples.
  • Tommy originally featured the 1968-76 variation of the logo, but was plastered with the next logo below on all later prints and home video releases of the film. Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different suffered the same fate as Tommy on the video releases, but has been restored on the DVD releases.
  • This was seen on early releases of the 1975 version of The Stepford Wives, but when Viacom bought the rights to the film, along with the rest of the Palomar Pictures catalog in the mid-'80s, the logo was deleted. However, following the release of the 2004 remake, Paramount Pictures gained rights to the original film through Viacom (owner of the former company), and added their 2002 logo at the beginning of all current prints.
  • This also appears on current prints of films that originally had the 2nd logo, including Dirigible, Behind the Mask, Shopworn, The Circus Queen Murder, Man's Castle, Twentieth Century, The Whole Town's Talking, The Black Room (1935), and She Married Her Boss.
  • The "A Columbia Serial" variant can be seen on the old Batman serials when aired on TCM.
  • The 3D version appears on the company's Golden Age 3D features, including Man in the Dark, Miss Sadie Thompson, and The Mad Magician.
  • The Three Stooges shorts that include the "Short Subject" variants will likely be retained, being followed by the Sony Pictures Television logo.
  • The 1960 variant of this logo also appears at the start of the Warner Archive Collection 2023 Blu-ray release of Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (1964).

4th: Sony generally retains older logos for newer releases of Columbia's films much more often than their TV output. In the early days of Columbia Pictures' video division, however, this logo would be plastered by their home video logo (although the "Columbia Pictures" text alone would be seen for a split second, possibly due to poor editing). Otherwise, all later video releases, DVD and Blu-ray releases, and TV broadcasts retain this logo.

  • The first film to use this logo was Murder by Death, while the last film to use it were Happy Birthday to Me. However, in international territories, it was used until at least 1982 as this appeared on Death Wish II (released domestically by Filmways Pictures).
  • On some airings of The Mirror Crack'd (the 1980 Angela Lansbury version), the logo is not shown at all, but is still intact on most home media releases and uncut TV airings. However, it's plastered by the black-and-white variant of the 2003 StudioCanal logo on most newer releases.
  • The 1980 Magnetic Video release of the ITC Entertainment film The Eagle Has Landed, which Columbia distributed in the United States, also has this logo.
  • It may also have possibly been seen on certain UK and international theatrical prints of The Savage Bees, The Incredible Melting Man, The Legacy, and the first two Spider-Man films (from the 1977 film series)
  • It also plasters the previous logo on Tommy, and 1980s and early 1990s U.S. VHS prints of Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different.
  • It was also seen on some pre-release versions of Stripes, before switching to the next logo for general release, as well as on home video releases.
  • The 1988 Goodtimes Home Video release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (as well as most other Columbia films distributed by Goodtimes on VHS during this period, such as the original 1977 Fun With Dick and Jane) edits this out and goes straight to the opening credits, although other prints, such as the 2001 DVD release and 30th Anniversary Blu-ray/DVD releases and the 40th Anniversary 4K UHD release retain it (as do later reissues of said other Columbia films from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment).
  • Neither this nor the 1963 Universal Pictures logo appear on the Steven Spielberg movie 1941 (which Columbia co-released with Universal).
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