Sony bought CBS Records Group, which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment ( Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others ) in 1989.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

Love was ordered urine tests under the supervision of Columbia Pictures while filming the movie, and passed all of them.

* Columbia Pictures ( some properties licensed 1945 to 1968 )

Following his Ed Sullivan appearance, Jones signed a contract with Ward Sylvester of Screen Gems ( then the television division of Columbia Pictures ).

The film was one of Columbia Pictures ' earliest successes.

Capra returned to Harry Cohn's studio, now renamed Columbia Pictures, which had then been producing short films and two-reel comedies used as " fillers ", which played between main features.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

Hawks took the opportunity to accept a directing offer from Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures: The Criminal Code, based on a successful play by Martin Flavin.

In 1934 Hawks went to Columbia Pictures to make his first screwball comedy, Twentieth Century, starring John Barrymore and Hawks's distant cousin Carole Lombard.

Hawks followed this with the aviation drama Only Angels Have Wings, again starring Cary Grant and made in 1939 for Columbia Pictures.

* Robin Ellis in the 1980 Columbia Pictures Television production The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Under Bogart's Santana Productions, which released through Columbia Pictures, Bogart starred in Knock on Any Door ( 1949 ), Tokyo Joe ( 1949 ), In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ), Sirocco ( 1951 ) and Beat the Devil ( 1954 ).

Undaunted, Lewis packed up and went to Columbia Pictures, where he made several more comedies.

In 1994, the Columbia Pictures film, North featured footage of Lewis's classic movies.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

The building, at the northeast corner of Broadway and 112th Street, was originally an apartment house but was converted to research space after Columbia bought it.

This is because the founder of this seaside community, which is today part of the municipality of Richmond, British Columbia, was Manoah Steves, originally from Moncton.

Some of Bob Hope's films originally released by Paramount ( including The Seven Little Foys and The Lemon Drop Kid ) were owned by Hope himself ; the copyrights were later transferred to Columbia Pictures Television.

* In the 1970s, Paramount acquired the rights to the Frank Capra film Broadway Bill, which was originally released by Columbia Pictures – Paramount had remade the film as Riding High in 1950 ;

The film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was " cleaned up " with several hundred thousand dollars before being distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States, still being promoted as " the movie made for $ 7, 000 ".

Columbia was originally scheduled to lift off in late 1979, however the launch date was delayed by problems with both the SSME components, as well as the thermal protection system ( TPS ).

The first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen, a rookie astronaut originally selected to fly on the military's Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ) spacecraft, but transferred to NASA after its cancellation, and served as a support crew member for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions.

( Enterprise, the test vehicle which was the prototype for Columbia, originally had the same wing markings as Columbia but with the letters " USA " on the right wing spaced closer together ; Enterprises markings were modified to match Challenger in 1983.

Columbia was also originally fitted with Lockheed Martin-built ejection seats identical to those found on the SR-71 Blackbird.

Had Columbia not been destroyed, it would have been fitted with the external airlock / docking adapter for STS-118, an International Space Station assembly mission, originally planned for November 2003.

The Bangles ' full-length debut album on Columbia, All Over the Place ( 1984 ), captured their power-pop roots, featuring the singles " Hero Takes a Fall " and the Kimberley Rew-penned Beatlesque " Going Down to Liverpool " ( originally recorded by Rew's band Katrina and the Waves ).

Recycled footage of Shemp, combined with new footage utilizing Columbia supporting player Joe Palma as Shemp's double ( only filmed from the back ), were used to complete the last four films originally planned with Shemp: Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff, Scheming Schemers, and Commotion on the Ocean.

* Columbia Aircraft Corp, originally Columbia Air Liners Inc.

** Columbia Automobile Company ( 1899 – 1913 ), originally expanded from the bicycle line

She originally pursued her master's degree at Columbia University, where she was exposed to the subject of psychology through courses under Edward Thorndike.

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

Telluride was originally named " Columbia ", but due to confusion with Columbia, California, the name was changed by the post office in 1887.

Examples include Vancouver, British Columbia, named after the explorer George Vancouver ; and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, originally called Isbister's Settlement but renamed after Queen Victoria's husband and consort in 1866.

Although the District of Columbia was originally created as a capital territory out of parts of Maryland and Virginia, the portion from Virginia was removed from the Federal District and returned to Virginia in 1846.

All of Simon's solo recordings, even the ones originally issued by Columbia Records, are currently distributed by Sony Records ' Legacy Recordings unit.

* The courts of Louisiana and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are organized under a civil law model with significantly different procedures from those of the courts in all other states and the District of Columbia, which are organized on an American version of the common law system established originally in England.

On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.

In 1818, a group of settlers incorporated under the Smithton Land Company purchased over and established the village of Smithton near present-day downtown Columbia.

His studio property was purchased by Mascot Pictures ( later part of Republic Pictures ), and many of his former staffers found work at Columbia Pictures.

( Nunn's home can be found at the corner of Aspen and Columbia Streets ; next door is the home he purchased for the " pinheads " to study hydro-electric engineering.

Further, though neither was ever used for their intended purpose, Hatley Castle in British Columbia was purchased in 1940 by King George VI in Right of Canada to use as his home during the course of World War II, and the Emergency Government Headquarters, built in 1959 at CFS Carp and decommissioned in 1994, included a residential apartment for the sovereign or governor general in the case of a nuclear attack on Ottawa.

Columbia Pictures purchased the screen rights in September 1932, and the studio scheduled the production to begin the following May, although director Frank Capra had misgivings about the project.

In January 1938, both Paramount Pictures and MGM had submitted Foster's story to the censors at the Hays Office, probably indicating that both studios had interest in the project before Columbia purchased it.

Before Liberty Media purchased 50 % of the network, GSN had unlimited access to the game shows owned by Sony Pictures subsidiary Columbia TriStar Television.

As this congregation grew ; a new site was purchased at the corner of West Columbia and Franklin Streets.

Elio Carerj purchased the Columbia portion of Pine Island ( which is in the middle of the Great Heath ) from Maurice Worcester for $ 1, 000 on August 17, 1963.

A triangular plot was purchased soon after by the Columbia Realty Company.

In the late 1920s, a group from Columbia purchased and partially developed the land.

Lexington was not a marketing center for these staples, but did serve as a retail market for manufactured goods purchased wholesale by merchants in nearby Columbia.

Hachaliah Bailey moved here from New York state and on December 19, 1837, he purchased a tract of land on the outskirts of Falls Church including what is now the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike.

By this time the record industry had been hit hard by the Depression and in 1934 a much-diminished Columbia USA was purchased for just US $ 70, 500 by ARC-BRC ( American Record Corporation – Brunswick Record Company ), which also acquired the OKeh label.

Volvo AB acquired the U. S. assets of the company in 1981, while two energy-related companies based in Calgary, Alberta, Bow Valley Resource Services, and NovaCorp, an Alberta corporation, purchased the Canadian assets, including the Kelowna, British Columbia, plant, and the Western Star nameplate and product range.

In 1981, Columbia Pictures acquired 81 % of The Walter Reade Organization, which owned 11 theaters ; it purchased the remaining 19 % in 1985.

Be it enacted ... That whoever, within the District of Columbia or any of the Territories of the United States ... shall sell ... or shall offer to sell, or to lend, or to give away, or in any manner to exhibit, or shall otherwise publish or offer to publish in any manner, or shall have in his possession, for any such purpose or purposes, an obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever, for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion, or shall advertise the same for sale, or shall write or print, or cause to be written or printed, any card, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind, stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means, any of the articles in this section … can be purchased or obtained, or shall manufacture, draw, or print, or in any wise make any of such articles, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of the United States ... he shall be imprisoned at hard labor in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than five years for each offense, or fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, with costs of court.

Several of Beebe's photographs from these expeditions were purchased by Columbia professors to use as slides during their lectures.

On November 11 of that year, controlling interest in Okeh was purchased by Columbia Records.

In 1945 it was purchased by The State which is the morning daily paper in Columbia to form the State-Record Company.

The company was purchased by Knight-Ridder in 1986 and publication of the Columbia Record ceased on April 1, 1988.