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File:W3UySxuAsPR eKo9MjRQFA30952.jpg|1993 variant (fullscreen)
File:The Juror (1996).png|1996 prototype variant
File:Columbia 'Fools Rush In' Opening.png|1996 variant
File:A Knight's Tale (2001).png|1996 variant (scope)▼
File:Vlcsnap-2018-09-25-22h12m45s399.png|1996 variant (open matte)
File:LSGdmxhAh2NjWJNUwcLexg15286.jpg|75th anniversary version▼
File:XxSeeZlEX1HlyjePQqamqw247027.png|1996 variant (fullscreen open matte)
File:Columbia Pictures (2001; Black Hawk Down).PNG|1996 variant (full open matte)
▲File:A Knight's Tale (2001).png
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File:Columbia Pictures (2011).png|2006 enhanced variant
File:WORfh3-EJfYTmY2WCz6iEQ320242.jpg|2006 enhanced variant (scope)
Columbia Pictures (The Bounty Hunter).png|2006 enhanced bylineless
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File:Columbia 2014 logo.png|2014 variant
File:Columbia Pictures (Fatherhood).png|2014 variant (scope)
File:Columbia Pictures 2014 (Square).png|2014 variant (square)
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Columbia Pictures (A Man Called Otto).png|2022 variant
Columbia Pictures (2022).png|2022 variant (scope)
▲Columbia Pictures (The Bounty Hunter).png|2006 bylineless version, similar to the original logo
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File:DtNndEoBKWyRH4Y5Moa0zA19286.jpg|Early prototype closing variant
File:ColumbiaStrikingDistanceend.png|1993 prototype closing variant
File:ColumbiaMaliceend.png|1993 prototype "Released by" variant
File:Columbia Pictures Kung Fu Hustle End Card.png|1993 prototype closing variant (bylineless)
File:1a339b5f384c70449a8d6dfac5747090.jpg|1993 closing variant
File:NtAMOun97awocb2JigTx5Q14806.jpg|1994 "Released by" variant
File:ColumbiaLesMisérables.png|1994 "Released by" variant (superimposed)
File:Columbia 'Wild Things' Closing.png|1994 "Released by" variant (bylineless)
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File:780e03ec450caf858ce015d6656666e5.png|2013 "Released by" variant▼
File:Columbia Pictures (2014, Closing).png|2014 closing variant
▲File:780e03ec450caf858ce015d6656666e5.png
File:5ff06a6e6120cefedd7f037e41fb71d8.png|2017 closing variant
File:A63855c366558b11ba929c25e1994b5b.png|2017 "Released by" variant
File:Columbia Pictures (2021, closing).png|2017 closing variant (inverted)
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'''Trivia:'''
* The Columbia logo's overhaul came about when Sony (who bought Columbia Pictures in 1989) commissioned illustrator Michael J. Deas to paint a new version of the Torch Lady, marking the first major change to the lady's design since 1936. The result, based on Deas' photography sessions with homemaker Jenny Joseph of Mandeville, Louisiana, who posed for him with a makeshift robe and torch, was a taller, slimmer Torch Lady with lighter, curlier hair and a dimmer torch. Rather than using Joseph's face, however, Deas constructed a composite face made up of several computer-generated features. Deas' artwork first appeared on the cover of ''Variety'' magazine on March 2, 1992, and saw its first use as part of the [[Columbia Pictures Television]] and [[Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar Home Video]] identities
* The identity of the Torch Lady's model wasn't revealed until 2004; prior rumors persisted that Annette Bening was the model (she made a cameo appearance as the Torch Lady in the logo at the start of the 2000 film ''What Planet Are You From?'').
* There is a slight error in the enhanced versions (at the six-second mark in the logo itself and at the 20-second mark with the Sony logo preceding it), as the camera zooms out; on the right side of the screen, part of the lower blue section is left unobscured by the clouds.
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'''Closing Variants:'''
* The standard closing variant, either superimposed over the ending scene or on a black background, features the print logo of Torch Lady (and the cloud background) inside a rectangular box, with the torch and clouds overlapping the top of the box. To the left of the logo are the words "COLUMBIA PICTURES" (in the same Bank Gothic font as the previous logo), with "COLUMBIA" over "PICTURES". Below that are the words "A COLUMBIA PICTURES RELEASE" or "RELEASED BY" (both in the small-caps format) above the logo with the SPE byline underneath the logo
* On some movies such as ''Stuart Little'', the animated short ''Early Bloomer'', ''Hollywood Homicide'', and ''13 Going on 30'', the SPE byline is smaller, more spaced out, and is in a different font.
* Depending on the credits, the logo and the text may vary in color.
* Starting with ''American Hustle'', the byline was shortened to "'''a Sony Company'''"; however, the older SPE byline variant made a reappearance on ''Pixels'', released on July 24, 2015.
**Both variants have <u>bylineless versions</u>. This is used on ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'', John Carpenter's ''Vampires'', ''I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'' (all three use this with the "A COLUMBIA PICTURES RELEASE" variant), ''Wild Things'', ''Dance with Me'', ''Gloria'', ''The Deep End of the Ocean'', and ''Still Crazy'' (all five uses this with the "RELEASED BY" variant); all eight movies use the bylineless logo at the beginning (though current prints of ''I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'' do use the logo with the byline at the beginning).
* An early closing variant featured the boxed Torch Lady logo in the center, with "COLUMBIA PICTURES" and the SPE byline below one another. Sometimes, the text and byline are smaller and the logo is bigger to fit the width of the text. There is also a variant where the logo is inverted and no SPE byline is used; this appeared on ''Warriors of Heaven and Earth'' and ''Kung Fu Hustle'', as well as on ''Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway'' and ''The Mitchells vs. the Machines'' with Sony byline. Beginning with ''Life'' in 2017, a revised version of this variant is used where the text and byline are larger.
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. It has been headquartered at Sony Pictures Studios (formerly MGM Studios and the former Lorimar's studios) in Culver City, California since 1993.
Columbia Pictures was originally founded on June 19, 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack, and Jack's friend Joe Brandt. Brandt was initially president, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. Many of the studio's early productions were low-budget affairs; the start-up CBC leased space in a poverty row studio on Hollywood's famously low-rent Gower Street. Among Hollywood's elite, CBC's small-time reputation led some to joke that the name stood for "Corned Beef and Cabbage".
On January 10, 1924, CBC was reincorporated as Columbia Pictures Corporation. The studio's product line at the time consisted mostly of moderately budgeted features and a short-subject program of comedies, serials, cartoons, and sports films. Columbia gradually moved into the production of higher-budget fare, building a reputation as one of Hollywood's more important studios. On December 23, 1968, the studio was reorganized as Columbia Pictures Industries after merging with its television division Screen Gems. On June 22, 1982, Columbia Pictures was sold to The Coca-Cola Company for $750 million. In December 1987, it became part of Columbia Pictures Entertainment, with Coke owning 49%. Finally, on November 8, 1989, it was sold to Sony Corporation of Japan. In 1998, the studio became a part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (now the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group).
Columbia Pictures titles were released outside North America via a partnership with Warner Bros. under the name Columbia-Warner (with some partnerships in the United Kingdom) until 1987, when Columbia reorganized its international distribution division as Columbia Tri-Star Films (now Sony Pictures Releasing International); the UK partnership would last until 1988.
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Visuals: On a dark gray background with arch clouds below, there is a woman dressed in a Roman soldier's outfit (similar to the ancient Greco-Roman goddess Athena/Minerva), crowned with a wreath and covered in a toga, holding a shield in her left hand and holding an olive branch in her right hand. There is the text "COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION Presents", with "COLUMBIA PICTURES" arched above, "CORPORATION" underneath it in a straight line, and "Presents" below.
Trivia:
Variant: A textless variant exists.
Technique: This logo is a matte painting.
Audio: None.
Availability: Seen on silent-era Columbia Pictures films, most of which are now lost or survive only in an incomplete form.
Visuals:
Trivia: The Torch Lady shown here is actress Claudia Dell, who appeared as Spanky's mother in the Our Gang shorts "Mama's Little Pirate" and "Anniversary Trouble".
Variants:
Closing Variants:
Technique: A mix of a matte painting, moiré effects and editing.
Audio: A majestic horn sounder (a la 20th Century Fox), or the opening/closing theme of the short/feature.
Availability: Seen on Columbia-owned films from this time period right up until the introduction of the next logo.
Visuals: There is the lady, this time standing on top of a pedestal with a backdrop of clouds over her, while she is holding her light torch. Much more refined, ethereal and goddess-like, her facial features are less pronounced and she looks away (up and to the right) instead of straight ahead. Her headdress is absent and her hair sweeps back instead of hanging by the sides of her face. The drape over her shoulder is less obviously an American flag, with the stars on the left shoulder being toned down in a shadow, and the stripes are visible only on the portion of the drape hanging down her right side. "A COLUMBIA PRODUCTION" is replaced with the tall chiseled letters of "COLUMBIA" (which fades in a second afterward) running straight across the top section of the screen, with the lady's torch glowing in front of the "U". A new form of animation is used on the logo as well, with a torch that radiates light instead of flickers. Until the mid-1960s, this logo would also appear at the end of films, sometimes with the words "The End" in a script font.
Trivia: The model in this and the next two logos is Pittsburgh native Jane Chester Bartholomew, who was discovered by Columbia co-founder and head Harry Cohn. After she left acting in the 1960s, Bartholomew became a nursing inspector with the Chicago Board of Health. She died in 2012.
Byline: Starting in 1974, the byline "A DIVISION OF COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC." appears at the bottom of the screen. This variant was introduced around the time its television production division Screen Gems Television changed its name to Columbia Pictures Television.
Evolution Variants:
Variants:
Technique: Traditional animation for the torch rays, and a matte painting for the Torch Lady, text and backdrop.
Audio: Usually, the beginning/end of the movie plays over the logo. On some films, the logo appears completely silent. However, on several mid to late '30s Three Stooges shorts, it has a majestic theme before playing the Three Stooges theme. On several other films, it would have a different theme.
Availability: Can still be seen on Columbia Pictures films of this period on home video formats and on TV airings.
Legacy: Considered the most well-known version of the logo, being used for an amazing 40 years.
Visuals: It begins with the familiar Columbia Torch Lady (a less detailed and yellow-toned version of her 1942/1955 iteration), standing on the pedestal and holding her light torch against the backdrop of clouds. The camera slowly zooms towards the torch as the rays pull in, which shines even more as the picture blurs around it. It then emits a flash that fills the screen. When the flash dissolves, the light torch itself appears, as if in a sunburst, against a black background. As it shrinks, it changes into a more "abstract" torch: a blue half circle, or a semicircle, with thirteen white light rays in the center, and the words "Columbia Pictures" (in a beveled Souvenir Bold font) under it. The entire logo then slowly zooms out before fading out.
Trivia: The Sunburst logo originally appeared in 1975, but first appeared only on posters.
Variants:
Technique: Motion-controlled cel animation, with the Torch Lady and cloud backdrop being a matte painting. The animation was provided by Robert Abel and Associates, who also did work on commercials (including early 1970s 7-Up ads, among many others) and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Audio:
Audio Trivia: The main instruments appearing on the soundtrack were a small horn section, Suzanne Ciani's Buchla modular (for the "popping" effects) and an ARP string synth (the same model Gary Wright used for his song "Dream Weaver" around the same time).
Audio Variant: The USSR version has an announcer dubbed in.
Availability: 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.
Legacy: Another favorite among the logo community.
Visuals:
Variants:
Closing Variants:
Technique: Cel animation for the torch rays and text, and a matte painting for the Torch Lady and backdrop.
Audio: None or the opening theme of the movie.
Audio Variants:
Availability: Seen on films of the era.
Visuals: First, there is a ray of light resembling a sunburst, with a different cloud background fading in a brief second later. The light is revealed to be coming from a torch, as the screen zooms out to reveal a redesigned Torch Lady; all of her fingers are now on the torch as she holds it. Once the camera is fully zoomed out, the word "COLUMBIA", in a bold, chiseled silver font, fades in, this time much smaller than the 3rd logo and positioned so that the "U" in "COLUMBIA" is behind the torch. A ring of light then shimmers around the lady before the logo fades to black.
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Technique: CGI. The 1993 version was animated at Kleiser/Walczak Construction Company, now known as Synthespian Studios. Jeff Kleiser (the brother of Grease and Flight of the Navigator director Randal Kleiser), and Diana Walczak were lead animators, while Ed Kramer and Joel Hynek assisted in production. The staff used 2D elements from Deas' painting, edited them using Adobe Photoshop running on an Apple Macintosh Quadra 950 workstation and converted them to 3D. The clouds were divided up to 66 image maps and Walczak mapped every cloud onto a 3D object and twist-distorted and translated on Alias/Wavefront Advanced Visualizer graphics software running on a Silicon Graphics Crimson Elan workstation. The woman was also converted to 3D by sculpting a real model and scanning it using a Polhemus 3-space digitizing pen. Sony Pictures Imageworks animated the later versions, while Greenhaus GFX designed the 2014 transition to the logo from Sony.
Audio: A majestic tune which ends with a brass sounder, composed by Jonathan Elias. The fanfare was recorded in 1993 and re-mixed in 1998, giving four versions of the fanfare (two mains and two alternates), all with the same ending, with only the 1998 final mix still being used regularly today:
Audio Variants:
Availability: It has been placed in front of most Columbia films for an impressive 30 years.
Legacy: A well-received homage to the 1936 logo thanks to its CGI and fanfare, used for over 30 years as of 2024.
Visual: It starts the same way as the 2022 variation of the previous logo, but the Torch Lady then turns black and white after a second. Afterward, the Torch Lady designs of various eras (1924, 1928, 1942, 1955, 1968, 1976, 1981, and 1993; the 1981 design is shown in both the finished and original sunburst versions) iris in similar one-second shots, zooming out on a black background revealing an encased, stylized "100". Then, there is stacked text in the same font as the print logo at the bottom reading:
The various Torch Lady designs slide in more and more rapidly, until they land on the updated 2014 version of the 1992 painting. When this happens, the torch glows brightly as the rest of her right hand is shown, as the border around the "100" and text shine, and the Sony byline appears below, then the logo fades out.
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Variants:
Closing Variant: Same as the 2017 variant of the previous logo, except with the 100 Years print logo, with the Torch Lady and clouds in the 2022 revision of its 2006 design, just like the on-screen logo.
Technique: CGI. Like the later variations of the previous logo, this was done by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Audio: The 2014 version of the current fanfare.
Availability: This is used for the company's centennial anniversary.
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