A Brief History of Paramount Pictures | THE STUDIOS

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Take a load off hotshot and pour yourself two fingers and we spill the beans on the history of one of Hollywood's oldest and most powerful studios: Paramount Pictures.

[@mychalsimmons4177]

I also love how you put yourself in character.... kool

[@musicalnotextr]

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.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Pesta Perut

[@Xplozhun85]

Can't wait for you to do one on Warner Bros!

[@AntonAbreu]

really looking forward to WB too

[@loganmenchaca]

Agreed

[@WinstonBleubon]

When is it coming out

[@djpeterabreu]

And we're still here... Waiting...

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Fox is next. But progress is slow with the virus...

[@TomAntos]

Great job with the script, set design, lighting, sound design editing and your acting. Keep it up John! I found this very interesting.

[@markj9244]

I worked at Paramount during the 70s and 80s and this video brought back many memories of the Evans and Diller eras... the good old days of Hollywood!

[@pedrovlogsviajeros5521]

Interesting. Did you produce any Paramount movies such as Indiana Jones?

[@dayvancubensis]

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!

[@ForceMaximus84]

Universal, UA, MGM, Disney, WB, Columbia, Fox I can’t wait to see more!

[@FilmmakerIQ]

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.

[@ForceMaximus84]

Filmmaker IQ Makes sense to go with UA next. They might have the most tragic story of all the studios. Either way, I’m excited for more!

[@Elainerulesutube]

@@FilmmakerIQ UA is now owned by M.G.M.

[@timonsteup2877]

And RKO.

[@donaldmelvin4348]

@@Elainerulesutube UA movies are the only movies MGM really has.MGM's pre 1986 library is owned by Warner Bros

[@ClashBerry]

PRODUCTION QUALITY!!! This turned out to be so good in the end John!

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Thanks and welcome back ClashBerry - always good to see ya!

[@sillygoose635]

It's very rare to find a good history of movie studios, but you've pulled it off!

[@benwaardenburg]

The tone on this is so spot on. Awesome writing and lighting. Though it would be awesome to do a film-noire black and white version

[@pedicabdiaries2460]

This looks more Warner Brothers than Paramount. Still great though

[@pedicabdiaries2460]

@@Sergioo14 What???

[@DomboProductionsInc]

Can’t wait for you to do one on Universal.

[@909sickle]

"He never spoke to her again." You got to watch out for those Adolphs.

[@mychalsimmons4177]

This was so good ive watched several times now wish it was longer with more tidbits about the inside of young Hollywood a story Cinema

[@Naminski1a]

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]

Goin’ to Town is owned by NBCUniversal.

[@donaldmelvin4348]

@@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

[@pedrovlogsviajeros5521]

@@donaldmelvin4348 interesting. Also Terrytoons of 20th century fox was owned by CBS.

[@thehernandezmediacorporation]

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)

[@VetericusNoire]

Great stuff! I've always liked Paramount movies for some reason. That was fascinating!

[@Elainerulesutube]

It's a prestige studio. It gets all the big stars!

[@christianpeligrinocagadas9781]

@@Elainerulesutube and even the cartoon department from Betty Boop and Popeye to SpongeBob

[@patrickfloresenciso526]

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)

[@Michaela1942]

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.

[@Paul-je6pw]

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.

[@ianmsutherland]

I like this series. Keep it up.

[@pguth98]

Why do your videos have to be so good?

[@mychalsimmons4177]

Your Blocking video taught me a lot too.

[@the_Sam20]

Another fact: Paramount's owner, Viacom and CBS Corporation are planning on remerging thus renaming both companies as "ViacomCBS"

[@the_Sam20]

Looks like I spoke too soon. Now they renamed the entire conglomerate after the film studio they own as "Paramount Global", or simply "Paramount".

[@juffan]

This is awesome. I love learning about the studios

[@Kevin-xv9pm]

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).

[@zerocooler7]

I really enjoyed this. I hope you'll do something like this for other studios as well.

[@DennisTamayo]

Later in December of 2019, Viacom merged with CBS into ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).

[@CaptRobertApril]

This one needs a sequel...

[@claudiaos6755]

thank you the clarity, it all makes sense and enjoyed how the theme fit the topic just right! awesome work!

[@spencerbeck9701]

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.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

And just today we lost Robert Evans :(

[@ultratoonfanclubtv6241]

@FilmmakerIQ, unrelated but I need to know, are new studio history videos coming

[@louranzofletcherprods]

@@FilmmakerIQ Can you do Columbia Pictures next

[@Malkmusianful]

love this video. very informative. also, i love the fact that paramount's effectively just a blob of mergers at this point.

[@PaulGilmore44]

This was fantastic! Please do more of these history of studios or even theater chains like what happened to ACT III theaters

[@SaturnCanuck]

This was great. A nice start to a new series. Great. More

[@uncaaj6242]

Thanks for the video! I hope there are plans to make this a series with the other big studios because I would very much enjoy that.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

That's the idea ;)

[@stefwork7309]

I wish you could do a sequel for the last 3 years

[@cjc363636]

Love this series! Well done! Unpacking all the corporate owners had to be a heck of a job!

[@mychalsimmons4177]

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”)

[@FilmmakerIQ]

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.

[@jakubvasak6590]

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 KZbin whatsoever. Keep on, please!!

[@stevenmuncy491]

Great video! Thanks for all the hard work.

[@Toonrick12]

15:41 So THAT'S why the Sonic Movie went from Sony to Paramount!

[@belaskifilms2162]

Great video Very well made Loved the style Keep up the amazing work

[@emanuelezamboni6782]

this flows very very good. Awesome production value! deserves a lot more views

[@emanuelezamboni6782]

Also it's helping me with my exams. Thanks a lot

[@CinemaRockPizza]

At first I thought that’s Orson Welles

[@carlraetzsch]

Great spin on the channel. Enjoyed it!

[@pheniox135]

Love the history of major studios! please do more!!

[@CarlosDavidLopez4077]

Loved it! Please do another soon!

[@Japhb]

great work man! its very interactice :)

[@RomanStranai]

this is GOLD, we need more like this !!! :)

[@mcanyildiz1996]

Amazing video. Very enjoyable. I hope you will make a serie

[@FilmmakerIQ]

That's the idea.

[@EhJawnz]

Great work! I love the character.

[@gyorgyszentgallay1374]

Easily the best channel in KZbin. Love your videos.

[@hashimmahamerul8857]

And now... CBS and All Viacom renamed as Paramount Global

[@muhammedrekani7321]

we need a sequel for this

[@Lurker1979]

CBS and Paramount are talking about getting back together in a form of a by out.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Sounds like my buddy and his old maid... The dame's got him hooked, they keep breaking up but the joker keeps going back for more...

[@Lurker1979]

Agree. we got divorced, but we want to get married again. I think one of the main reasons has to do with Star Trek.

[@secondavenger9775]

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.

[@mychalsimmons4177]

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.

[@AndyAndromedaArt]

Love the film noir theme

[@kopesetik]

loved this! can't wait for the other studios

[@alzoraig]

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.

[@103213able]

Amazing work!

[@TrapPhoneLoveMelodiesss]

Man, freaking LOVE this channel...

[@mattjackson2172]

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.

[@saigokun]

This was a very good en entertaining overview of Paramount.

[@christianpeligrinocagadas9781]

9:30 Popeye was licensed by King Features Syndicate, the original owner of those Popeye and Thimble Theatre characters created by E.C. Segar.

[@vincentknight27]

Awesome video. Simply awesome

[@ObsessedCollector]

I can watch this stuff all day. LOVE IT!

[@mychalsimmons4177]

As always Jon great job

[@BadKarma714]

Good video loved it

[@VXDRG]

Wow amazing video I learned a lot

[@namu5583]

The best 27 minutes of my life. Learn a lot. Thank you.

[@BThings]

This was awesome! I want more!!!

[@NEMIHEMERA]

BRILLIANT! MORE PLEASE!

[@chrisrodriguez6899]

Wow and I didn’t think your videos could be even more enjoyable

[@curiousventures]

Amazing freaking video! You are a legend!

[@kylereyes2337]

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.

[@russellhurst3041]

Wow! love the show, great 1930/1940 sassy motif , very informative. Thanks. Keep going!

[@brianwarner308]

this was awesome!!

[@PatrickLeeRyan]

Very informative not to mention fun video. Surprised Charlie Bluhdorn doesn't have a movie about him. Not even a documentary, as far as I can tell.

[@rogerbuss3609]

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.

[@steveweinstein3222]

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.

[@blackballinmusicgroup2261]

Great video by the way

[@raphaelbracquart298]

Such a nice video, thanks!! Very interesting, can't wait to see another one! What about United Artists?!

[@mattjackson2172]

At least you didn't mention Big Ticket Television, Dean Valentine and Larry Little.

[@CinemaGatesPictures]

Great Video! 👍😎🎬

[@dustingriffith7399]

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.

[@dustingriffith7399]

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!

[@dustingriffith7399]

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!"

[@pedrovlogsviajeros5521]

@@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?

[@filanfyretracker]

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.

[@trevonpernell0814]

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.

[@leogmafire001]

Great video man.

[@davidvargo8216]

Excellent John!

[@penguinYT1]

What an excellent documentary!

[@ciceroaraujo5183]

Simply fascinating

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Thank you ...good job 🎯

[@theflyingpotatoyoutube7731]

Yay, new video.

[@Ben-jp9ru]

Love your videos!

[@cornishchris8404]

StudioCanal, Woodfall Films, Janus Films, Orion Pictures, Carolco, ITC, Rank, UA, De Laurentis Entertainment Group, Lorimar, RKO, Samuel Goldwyn... Would love to see those

[@alexanderfilmworks]

Channeling A. J. Benza, were we? Spot on, John.

[@mychalsimmons4177]

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

[@Ev_Thomas]

The best KZbin film channel has returned! I can't wait for a video on RKO, some day!

[@sokolum]

Nice docu!

[@DwRockett]

This video is great

[@psychousman]

Love the theme

[@HipHopMovieNews]

This must’ve taken so much research to produce. Thank you.

[@JukeDenton]

Happy 111th anniversary to Paramount Pictures!

[@jilltagmorris]

Wonderful!!!

[@shenr0n_]

Does anyone else find surprising parallels between this and the rise of the Video On-Demand Platforms? Hi, Netflix!