HARRY WHITFIELD

Columbia Pictures Industries is an American film production and distribution studio of the Sony Pictures Entertainment. It is one of the leading film studios in the world, a member of the so-called Big Six. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The studio, originally founded in 1918 as “Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales” by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jack’s best friend Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It changed its name to

Columbia Pictures in 1924 and went public two years later.

 

In its early years it was considered a small name in Hollywood, Columbia began to grow in the late 1920s, spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra. It’s the world’s fifth largest major film studio.