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.

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  • @mychalsimmons4177
    @mychalsimmons4177 6 років тому +59

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

  • @TomAntos
    @TomAntos 5 років тому +41

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

  • @dayvancubensis
    @dayvancubensis 6 років тому +39

    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!

  • @musicalnotextr
    @musicalnotextr 5 років тому +67

    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
      @NazriB 10 місяців тому

      Lies again? Pesta Perut

  • @Xplozhun85
    @Xplozhun85 6 років тому +126

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

    • @AntonAbreu
      @AntonAbreu 6 років тому +5

      really looking forward to WB too

    • @loganmenchaca
      @loganmenchaca 5 років тому +1

      Agreed

    • @WinstonBleubon
      @WinstonBleubon 4 роки тому +1

      When is it coming out

    • @djpeterabreu
      @djpeterabreu 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @FilmmakerIQ
      @FilmmakerIQ  4 роки тому +15

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

  • @markj9244
    @markj9244 2 роки тому +7

    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
      @pedrovlogsviajeros5521 11 місяців тому

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

  • @ClashBerry
    @ClashBerry 6 років тому +7

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

    • @FilmmakerIQ
      @FilmmakerIQ  6 років тому +3

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

  • @benwaardenburg
    @benwaardenburg 6 років тому +22

    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

  • @sillygoose635
    @sillygoose635 6 років тому +11

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

  • @ForceMaximus84
    @ForceMaximus84 6 років тому +22

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

    • @FilmmakerIQ
      @FilmmakerIQ  6 років тому +12

      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
      @ForceMaximus84 6 років тому +7

      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
      @Elainerulesutube 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @timonsteup2877
      @timonsteup2877 3 роки тому +2

      And RKO.

    • @donaldmelvin4348
      @donaldmelvin4348 2 роки тому

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

  • @DomboProductionsInc
    @DomboProductionsInc 5 років тому +8

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

  • @mychalsimmons4177
    @mychalsimmons4177 6 років тому +15

    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

  • @juffan
    @juffan 6 років тому +17

    This is awesome. I love learning about the studios

  • @zerocooler7
    @zerocooler7 6 років тому +10

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

  • @VetericusNoire
    @VetericusNoire 6 років тому +16

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

    • @Elainerulesutube
      @Elainerulesutube 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @christianpeligrinocagadas9781
      @christianpeligrinocagadas9781 8 місяців тому

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

  • @pguth98
    @pguth98 6 років тому +16

    Why do your videos have to be so good?

  • @ianmsutherland
    @ianmsutherland 6 років тому +15

    I like this series. Keep it up.

  • @the_Sam20
    @the_Sam20 4 роки тому +10

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

    • @the_Sam20
      @the_Sam20 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @DennisTamayo
    @DennisTamayo Рік тому +2

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

  • @909sickle
    @909sickle 5 років тому +4

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

  • @jakubvasak6590
    @jakubvasak6590 5 років тому +4

    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 UA-cam whatsoever. Keep on, please!!

  • @mychalsimmons4177
    @mychalsimmons4177 6 років тому +5

    Your Blocking video taught me a lot too.

  • @claudiaos6755
    @claudiaos6755 3 роки тому

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

  • @Naminski1a
    @Naminski1a 5 років тому +20

    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
      @ArMartz 2 роки тому

      Goin’ to Town is owned by NBCUniversal.

    • @donaldmelvin4348
      @donaldmelvin4348 2 роки тому +1

      @@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
      @pedrovlogsviajeros5521 11 місяців тому +1

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

    • @thehernandezmediacorporation
      @thehernandezmediacorporation 3 місяці тому

      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)

  • @SaturnCanuck
    @SaturnCanuck 6 років тому +6

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

  • @Malkmusianful
    @Malkmusianful 6 років тому +5

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

  • @Michaela1942
    @Michaela1942 6 місяців тому +4

    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
      @Paul-je6pw Місяць тому

      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.

  • @patrickfloresenciso526
    @patrickfloresenciso526 Рік тому +3

    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)

  • @stefwork7309
    @stefwork7309 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @Kevin-xv9pm
    @Kevin-xv9pm 2 роки тому +3

    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).

  • @PaulGilmore44
    @PaulGilmore44 6 років тому +1

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

  • @stevenmuncy491
    @stevenmuncy491 6 років тому +1

    Great video! Thanks for all the hard work.

  • @cjc363636
    @cjc363636 6 років тому +4

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

  • @emanuelezamboni6782
    @emanuelezamboni6782 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @spencerbeck9701
    @spencerbeck9701 4 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @carlraetzsch
    @carlraetzsch 6 років тому

    Great spin on the channel. Enjoyed it!

  • @CaptRobertApril
    @CaptRobertApril 2 роки тому +2

    This one needs a sequel...

  • @mychalsimmons4177
    @mychalsimmons4177 6 років тому +7

    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
      @FilmmakerIQ  6 років тому +5

      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.

  • @uncaaj6242
    @uncaaj6242 6 років тому +4

    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.

  • @gyorgyszentgallay1374
    @gyorgyszentgallay1374 5 років тому

    Easily the best channel in UA-cam. Love your videos.

  • @CinemaRockPizza
    @CinemaRockPizza 6 років тому +11

    At first I thought that’s Orson Welles

  • @belaskifilms2162
    @belaskifilms2162 6 років тому +1

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

  • @CarlosDavidLopez4077
    @CarlosDavidLopez4077 5 років тому

    Loved it! Please do another soon!

  • @pheniox135
    @pheniox135 6 років тому +1

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

  • @Lurker1979
    @Lurker1979 6 років тому +12

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

    • @FilmmakerIQ
      @FilmmakerIQ  6 років тому +12

      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
      @Lurker1979 6 років тому +2

      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
      @secondavenger9775 5 років тому +1

      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
    @mychalsimmons4177 6 років тому +1

    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.

  • @TrapPhoneLoveMelodiesss
    @TrapPhoneLoveMelodiesss 5 років тому

    Man, freaking LOVE this channel...

  • @muhammedrekani7321
    @muhammedrekani7321 Рік тому +1

    we need a sequel for this

  • @RomanStranai
    @RomanStranai 6 років тому +1

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

  • @mcanyildiz1996
    @mcanyildiz1996 6 років тому +1

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

  • @kopesetik
    @kopesetik 5 років тому

    loved this! can't wait for the other studios

  • @EhJawnz
    @EhJawnz 6 років тому +2

    Great work! I love the character.

  • @namu5583
    @namu5583 5 років тому

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

  • @103213able
    @103213able 6 років тому +1

    Amazing work!

  • @AndyAndromedaArt
    @AndyAndromedaArt 6 років тому +2

    Love the film noir theme

  • @Japhb
    @Japhb 6 років тому +5

    great work man! its very interactice :)

  • @hashimmahamerul8857
    @hashimmahamerul8857 Рік тому +5

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

  • @saigokun
    @saigokun 5 років тому +1

    This was a very good en entertaining overview of Paramount.

  • @chrisrodriguez6899
    @chrisrodriguez6899 5 років тому

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

  • @ObsessedCollector
    @ObsessedCollector 3 роки тому

    I can watch this stuff all day. LOVE IT!

  • @VXDRG
    @VXDRG 6 років тому +1

    Wow amazing video I learned a lot

  • @vincentknight27
    @vincentknight27 6 років тому +2

    Awesome video. Simply awesome

  • @blackballinmusicgroup2261
    @blackballinmusicgroup2261 2 роки тому +1

    Great video by the way

  • @russellhurst3041
    @russellhurst3041 Рік тому

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

  • @curiousventures
    @curiousventures 2 роки тому

    Amazing freaking video! You are a legend!

  • @mychalsimmons4177
    @mychalsimmons4177 6 років тому +1

    As always Jon great job

  • @Toonrick12
    @Toonrick12 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @leogmafire001
    @leogmafire001 3 роки тому +1

    Great video man.

  • @davidvargo8216
    @davidvargo8216 Рік тому

    Excellent John!

  • @NEMIHEMERA
    @NEMIHEMERA 6 років тому

    BRILLIANT! MORE PLEASE!

  • @BThings
    @BThings 6 років тому

    This was awesome! I want more!!!

  • @WinstonBleubon
    @WinstonBleubon 5 років тому +2

    Please make more

  • @Ev_Thomas
    @Ev_Thomas 6 років тому +2

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

  • @PatrickLeeRyan
    @PatrickLeeRyan 5 років тому +1

    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.

  • @mattjackson2172
    @mattjackson2172 3 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @alzoraig
    @alzoraig 3 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you ...good job 🎯

  • @penguinYT1
    @penguinYT1 6 років тому

    What an excellent documentary!

  • @brianwarner308
    @brianwarner308 6 років тому +1

    this was awesome!!

  • @theflyingpotatoyoutube7731
    @theflyingpotatoyoutube7731 6 років тому +5

    Yay, new video.

  • @raphaelbracquart298
    @raphaelbracquart298 6 років тому

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

  • @BadKarma714
    @BadKarma714 6 років тому +3

    Good video loved it

  • @CinemaGatesPictures
    @CinemaGatesPictures 3 роки тому +1

    Great Video! 👍😎🎬

  • @kylereyes2337
    @kylereyes2337 2 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @jjcross3560
    @jjcross3560 11 днів тому

    Great job 👍

  • @mattjackson2172
    @mattjackson2172 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @rogerbuss3609
    @rogerbuss3609 5 років тому +4

    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
      @steveweinstein3222 Рік тому

      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.

  • @filanfyretracker
    @filanfyretracker 5 років тому +4

    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
      @trevonpernell0814 5 років тому

      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.

  • @ciceroaraujo5183
    @ciceroaraujo5183 2 роки тому

    Simply fascinating

  • @HipHopMovieNews
    @HipHopMovieNews 5 років тому +2

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

  • @nyj8266
    @nyj8266 5 років тому

    10 out of 10 for the presentation.

  • @christianpeligrinocagadas9781
    @christianpeligrinocagadas9781 8 місяців тому +3

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

  • @psychousman
    @psychousman 5 років тому +1

    Love the theme

  • @sokolum
    @sokolum 6 років тому +1

    Nice docu!

  • @Ben-jp9ru
    @Ben-jp9ru 6 років тому +1

    Love your videos!

  • @mychalsimmons4177
    @mychalsimmons4177 6 років тому +10

    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

  • @DwRockett
    @DwRockett 6 років тому +2

    This video is great

  • @stevegardner74
    @stevegardner74 5 років тому

    Great video. My HS media class enjoy your works.

  • @alexanderfilmworks
    @alexanderfilmworks 5 років тому +1

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

  • @jilltagmorris
    @jilltagmorris Рік тому

    Wonderful!!!