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Columbia Pictures Group

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Columbia Pictures Group

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Auction Date:2007 Feb 01 @ 10:00 (UTC-4 : AST/EDT)
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NY. 1940-1970's. Specimen. 5 different certificates. All have vignette of allegorical woman standing holding torch with "columbia" on top. 1). Columbia Pictures Corp., 1940-50's., than 100 shs, Domestic Share, blue. 5). Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 100 shs, Foreign Share, red. In 1918, independent producer Harry Cohn, his brother Jack, and their associate Joe Brandt started the CBC Film Sales Company. in 1924 the company changed its name to Columbia Pictures Corporation and began a period of growth that would rank it among the major studios within ten years. Columbia was ruled somewhat autocratically by its brash founder, Harry Cohn, for more than 30 years. In 1929, Columbia produced its first "talkie" feature file, The Donovan Affair drected by Frank Capra. His films glorified the common man, the unlikely hero who beat the odds. Films like It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take it With You, and Mr. Smith goes to Washington firmly placed Capra and Columbia Pictures within the Hollywood establishment. In 1948 the studio launched a TV subsidiary, Screen Gems, which began to produce TV shows in 1952. In addition to producing new programs like "Rin Tin Tin", "Captain Midnight", and "Father Knows Best", the Screen Gems subsidiary sold the rights to old Columbia films for television broadcast. A number of big hits in the 1950's, including From Here to Eternity, The Caine Mutiny, and On the Waterfront, helped Columbia thrive. In 1989, Sony purchased Columbia Picture Entertainment. Rare Columbia certificate varieties. ABNC. XF.