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Music/Sounds Variant: When the movie 20 Million Miles to Earth premiered on television, Screen Gems plastered the Columbia Pictures logo, keeping the fanfare intact. Usually, as a closing logo, you will hear the ending theme for whatever show or movie played over it, sometimes with Hal Gibney announcing: 'This has been a Screen Gems Film Production, from the Hollywood studios of Columbia Pictures'.There exists two known versions of this fanfare. A majestic horn fanfare at the begin/end of some syndicated programs, or the opening theme of the movie or short.Technique: Likely traditional cel animation.

A French version exists, consisting of 'UNE PRESENTATION' in place of ' A', 'INC.' added underneath the 'S' in 'GEMS', and 'TELEVISION SUBSIDIARY' being replaced by 'SERVICE DE TELEVISION DE'.It is known to be seen on the Shirley Temple's Storybook episode 'Mother Goose'. An extremely rare colorized version of the logo was spotted.The logo is the same, except for the text '10 TH ANNIVERSARY FILM PROGRAM' (or ' FILM PRESENTATION') seen below in place of the standard text. There is a special variant for the 10th Anniversary of Screen Gems.The byline 'TELEVISION SUBSIDIARY COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION' appears below that. The Torch Lady's head and upper body is between the words 'SCREEN GEMS' with the letter ' A' in Vivaldi font above it and 'FILM PRESENTATION' or 'FILM PRODUCTION' below it. Logo: Like the 1942 version of the 1936-1976 Columbia Pictures logo, we see a lady (Columbia, a representation of the USA) holding a light torch on top a pedestal with a backdrop of clouds over her. On May 6, 1974, Screen Gems was reincorporated as ' Columbia Pictures Television'. On December 23, 1968, Screen Gems merged with its parent Columbia Pictures Corporation and the whole organization was reincorporated as 'Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.'. were split into separate companies, when the former studio sold 11% of the latter's stock to the public. In January 1961, Columbia Pictures Corporation and Screen Gems, Inc. From 1957-1966, Screen Gems held a 20% stake in Hanna-Barbera and acted as their distributor Screen Gems (and later, Columbia Pictures itself) also owned the distribution rights to The Flintstones until the 1980s. On August 2, 1957, Screen Gems agreed to syndicate the Universal Horror Package from Universal-International for 10 years under the names Shock and Son of Shock. 'Serials Inc.') as well as its affiliated company, United Television Films, Inc. On December 10, 1956, Screen Gems acquired television syndication company Hygo Television Films (a.k.a. On July 1, 1956, Columbia studio veteran Irving Briskin formed Briskin Productions to oversee all of Screen Gems' productions.

Screen Gems became a fully-fledged studio in 1951 by moving into Telefilm syndication and later into television production in 1952.

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It was responsible for television production, TV movies, syndicating the Columbia Pictures movie library, and starting in 1958, The Three Stooges shorts starting with the Curly series. Pioneer Telefilms was renamed to Screen Gems after the acquisition. Cohn, the son of Columbia Pictures co-founder, Jack Cohn, and the nephew of longtime Columbia Pictures president and co-founder, Harry Cohn.

It was formed when Columbia acquired Pioneer Telefilms, a television commercial company founded in 1947 by Ralph M. Screen Gems, previously the cartoon division of Columbia Pictures, was revived as a television subsidiary in 1948.