He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

He eventually settled for being billed as assistant director and then left Paramount to work with David O. Selznick at RKO Studios.

In 1912, Adolph Zukor had formed Famous Players in Famous Plays – later Famous Players-Lasky and then Paramount Pictures – one of the first American feature film companies.

Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

The logo originally had twenty-four stars, as a tribute to the then current system of contracts for actors, since Paramount had twenty-four stars signed at the time.

Sometimes he would spend all day in front of Paramount Pictures or Columbia Pictures and then skate to the Brown Derby to watch the stars who came and went for meals.

Although the series continued to receive low ratings and was canceled a year later, the enduring popularity of the series resulted in Paramount creating a set of movies, and then a new series Star Trek: The Next Generation, which by the early 1990s had become one of the most popular dramas on American television.

Paramount then proposed a movie version of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.

It is the first film released by Paramount Vantage, then known as Paramount Classics.

When it was launched, UPN began having most of its stations branded as " UPN " or " Paramount ," then the channel number, with the call signs nearby.

Frakes stated: " I started with the cattle call, then the casting director, the producer, then other directors, to Gene Roddenberry, and then through the Paramount execs, including the vice-president himself and the heads of television.

This story started as the CBC TV movie Flight into Danger, then became the 1957 Paramount Pictures movie Zero Hour !, and was finally published as the novel Runway Zero-Eight ( ISBN 0-440-17546-1 ).

First released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it starred what were then billed as the " Four Marx Brothers " ( Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo ) and also featured Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern and Edgar Kennedy.

Just before the premiere, Paramount announced that all of their films would be shot for this ratio from then on.

Hoffman then wrote a column for The Hollywood Reporter speculating that Lehman would make a good screenwriter, and within a week Paramount called Lehman, inviting him to Los Angeles for talks.

In 1997, three years after the Paramount / Viacom merger, that company sold its stake in the networks to Universal ( which, along with parent MCA, changed ownership twice earlier in the 1990s: to Matsushita in 1991, and then Seagrams in 1995, the latter company making Universal Studios the corporate name of its media division in 1997 ).

After being merged with WASEC's The Movie Channel, Paramount Pictures ( then owned by Gulf + Western ) signed an exclusive first-run deal with the newly formed Showtime / The Movie Channel for 75 films for the next five years.

After being acquired by Viacom in 1994, Paramount Pictures began a 10-year output deal with Showtime ( then also owned by Viacom ), effective after 1997, after Paramount's contract with HBO expired.

The studio evolved into Famous Players-Lasky with co-producer Jesse L. Lasky and then Paramount Pictures, of which he served as president until 1936 when he was elevated to chairman of the board.

In 1999 Brooks and his production company Red Strokes Entertainment, with Paramount Pictures, began to develop a movie in which Brooks would star.

It was released by the studio where the Marx Brothers began their film career, Paramount Pictures.

The duo began their Paramount film careers in 1949 as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name.

Also in 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps animated cartoons produced by Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios in New York City.

In September 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television ( now known as CBS Television Distribution, the current rights holders for the Star Trek television franchises ) began syndication of an enhanced version of Star Trek: The Original Series in high definition with new CGI visual effects.

On May 14, 2001, shooting began for the pilot episode, " Broken Bow ", on stages 8, 9, and 18 at Paramount Studios.

During the fifth season, with Paramount executives having gained greater control, new producer Bruce Lansbury began to phase out the international missions.

During these years, as well, the American studios began abandoning the Western Electric system for RCA Photophone's variable-area approach — by the end of 1936, only Paramount, MGM, and United Artists still had contracts with ERPI.

By October 4, 1932, Arthur Sheekman, Harry Ruby, and Bert Kalmar began writing the screenplay for the next Paramount film, which was now called Firecrackers.

In 1992, Miramax began a deal with Paramount Pictures for VHS and TV distribution of certain Miramax releases.

Following the release of Days of Heaven, Malick began developing a project for Paramount, titled Q, that explored the origins of life on earth.

While most major studios eventually began putting SDDS tracks on their releases ( Universal exclusively supported DTS until 1998, and Paramount and Fox placed SDDS tracks on only their biggest releases until 2001-2002 ), most independent films only came with Dolby Digital tracks, leaving many SDDS-equipped theaters playing analog sound in otherwise state-of-the-art auditoriums.

In 1973, Bakshi and Ruddy began production on Harlem Nights, which Paramount was originally contracted to distribute.

Zamboni & Co. began and is still headquartered in Paramount.

In a move that remains controversial to the present day ( though it has not been closely examined by film historians ), Paramount took over the Fleischer studio completely and brought it under the fold of their own studio, renaming it Famous Studios and continuing the work that the Fleischers began.

That same year, Paramount Parks began incorporating themes from its movies into the park.

In 1938 Scott finished his contract with Paramount and began freelancing.

Williams began The Montel Williams Show ( syndicated by CBS Paramount Television ) in 1991.

Cline began his association with W. C. Fields in the 1932 Paramount film Million Dollar Legs.

During this period, Paramount began featuring Fields in full-length comedies, and by 1934 he was a major movie star.

In 1936, she moved to Hollywood and began appearing regularly in films for Paramount Pictures.

He learned guitar from minstrel and medicine show veteran Papa Charlie Jackson, who began recording for Paramount Records in 1924.