Searching for the REAL Paramount Mountain | Into the Logo-Verse

Paramount Pictures lays claim to an embarrassing wealth of popular films - the Top Gun movies, Forrest Gump, the Godfather, and of course the Star Trek and Mission Impossible franchises. Paramount also lays claim to a legendary studio logo -- the indomitable image of a majestic, snow-capped mountain peak ringed by stars. But few film fans know that a real Paramount mountain exists. Actually, a pair of real-life mountains have served as the inspiration. The story of the logo’s origin is also the story of Hollywood’s origin as a modern industry. Paramount was the first nation-wide film distributor, shattering the earlier “road show” system and blazing a trail that other studios would soon follow. For over a century and counting, the mountain logo has graced the big screen, evolving throughout the decades with advancements in technology. This video takes us back to the very start, from the logo’s birth as a crude sketch on a napkin (or so the legend goes) to its rise as a contemporary icon.
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[@miz_logo_lee]

I’m so happy to have found your channel. Movie logos have been an obsession of mine since I was a little kid.

[@ERScorer173]

I love this logo as much as 20th century fox's both are nostalgic

[@joshmontemayor1212]

Paramount also has Titanic, the Naked Gun movies, & the Transformers movies under their belt.

[@JeremyLeal1695]

I always remember the colors of the 90’s Paramount logo. They strangely always made me feel uncomfortable as a kid, for some unexplainable reason.

[@manuelorozco7760]

As a millennial, I can relate to growing up with the late 80’s/early 90’s logo with Rugrats/Peanuts videos.

[@CaptinNabil7]

Same here, as well as watching it on Blue's Clues videos and even seeing it on the opening to The Busy World of Richard Scarry.

[@manuelorozco7760]

@@CaptinNabil7 I owned two Richard Scary videos. But they were from Random House

[@joshmontemayor1212]

Yeah. Peanuts was my introduction to Paramount Pictures.

[@manuelorozco7760]

@@joshmontemayor1212 I believe it was either Peanuts or Charolette’s Web

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

Paramount released the first 8 Friday the 13th films from 1980-1989, plus the reboot in 2009.

[@1Soniccool]

Paramount distributed the reboot internationally while Warner Brothers/New Line Cinema did the movie domesticly

[@bardthenascarfanaticdragon]

@@1Soniccool Paramount also appeared in the USA.

[@JLUV2002]

1986 2002 is the goated

[@QToon92801]

Yes!!

[@heshamshalan]

for real it is the magnetic momero mauntain in the center of the north pole.

[@Chxll5992]

Hidden in plain sight

[@royrush5374]

I can't believe there's no comments

[@RATSKETCHES]

3 people already commented, are you there when the video is made.

[@jadepollock-om1lu]

The older Paramount Pictures mountain was said to have been inspired by the Ben Lomond mountain, located in the Wasatch Mountains near Ogden, Utah.

[@Macintosh77]

lol I live right under that mountain

[@jadepollock-om1lu]

@@Macintosh77 I'm in Kearns down in SLC

[@MTJ305]

Paramount

[@henrycurran4692]

At 0:35, what movie is that clip from?

[@michaelcahillpresents]

Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier. It's Captain Kirk's first scene. He's climbing El Capitan in Yosemite National park

[@jadepollock-om1lu]

Ogden Utah