A Brief History of Paramount Pictures | THE STUDIOS

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.

Can you do: A brief history of Warner Bros. Studios?

I love a lot of Paramount Movies. Robert Evans after discovering "The Kid Stays In The Picture" became an idol of mine. I hope you do more of these documentary shows about the studios and the "golden age of Hollywood" stuff. Especially the "fixers" which I find interesting personally.

Wait a minute you mean Max Fleischer

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.

Thanks for nothin' ya lousy lush!

Happy 111th anniversary to Paramount Pictures!

Wow...history reats for sure

Paramount studio be another dead hollywood studio anytimes.

Excellent John!

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

FFC they are ripping u off

Se va a contaminar

Wonderful!!!

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

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One of reason why i love Paramount because they made the god tier level movie i could imagine.

from Audrey Hepburn to Tom Cruise. Nothing can against them.

Is this a documentary history of Paramount Pictures or someone's audition as an Announcer/Narrator?

Drop the on camera "Sluth" routine and play this straight. Open and close with the stupid detective if you must but go voice over after that. And drop the swoosh sound effects.

This unfortunately, while being valuable research and history is an amateur presentation on a Professional Movie Studio! You know no one who actually made movies there was involved in this dumb video.

~Sorry!

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)

When I was a kid, I liked watching Popeye Cartoons where the credits listed the distributor as "A Famous Studio's Production". I often wondered what studio was the famous studio? Then I found out " Famous Studio" was the name of the studio that produced the cartoons.

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

One thing I can say is that 80% of the great businessmen mentioned here are Jewish. Wow! Just wow!

we need a sequel for this

Thank you ...good job 🎯

Zukor was my favorite mogul. He was certainly the best looking one of the group, besides being a near genius..

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

And now paramount pictures have sonic movie live action

Great video by the way

Quick Question! What type of animation is that paramount pictures intro?

This one needs a sequel...

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!

Hey, Filmmaker IQ! Can you please do the history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)?

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

I never was acter or dancer or in Hollywood at all but if you never go to Hollywood they come to hospitals photo you with actors lesbian gays drug attic after they stealing your body parts when you are in recovery room drugged numbed to tell people you are drug attic drug attic to cover Ellen Taylor vampire stern family and friends kids hunting everybody worldwide for their gambling drugging fun

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).

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.

man you should do history of warner brothers.....

Jesus, even after the ViacomCBS Re-Merger Paramounts cheaper than ever!

Simply fascinating

Paramount was brought in as a co-producer of "Titanic." The film originated out of 20th Century Fox, but when the film went way over budget, Fox looked for a partner and Paramount stepped in. But if you look at any of the ads for the film or see the film's credits, the trade mark is owned by 20th Century Fox. Or, to bring it even more up to date, the Walt Disney Company, since Disney bought 20th Century in 2019.

Amazing freaking video! You are a legend!

excellent

Is this also comercial for Wild Turkey Bourbon 101? 😉 Overall great video!!! Thanks for your work!

Great Video! 👍😎🎬

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