Question:
is it a real mountain on the "Paramount" Title at the beginning of films?
joelataxi
2008-04-30 15:31:27 UTC
the paramount film companys logo at the beginnings of films, is it based on a real mountain, if so which one ?
Three answers:
MystMoonstruck
2008-04-30 15:42:27 UTC
Here is a link to some research that was done. There are links there that will take you to pictures:

http://ask.yahoo.com/20040824.html



This is an excerpt of some of the information:

The mountain depicted on the Paramount Pictures logo isn't real. But we wondered if perhaps it was inspired by a particular peak. This question has sparked spirited debate on the message boards of several mountain climbing sites. This fascinating Network 54 posting claims to have the answer:

William Wadsworth Hodkinson, the man who started Paramount and came up with the logo, originally hailed from Ogden, Utah. Lynn Arave, the poster on the message board, also grew up in Ogden and believes Hodkinson's inspiration was Ben Lomond Peak, a 9,712-foot mountain that dominates the northern skyline. This certainly seems possible. According to Leslie Halliwell's biography "Mountain of Dreams," Hodkinson's logo was "a memory of childhood in his home state of Utah."



I'll see if I can find anything else about it. It has been redesigned in a couple of ways. The Paramount Television logo is quite different, far from the towering peak of the movie logo.
2008-04-30 22:42:03 UTC
no it is not dude



The distinctively pyramidal Paramount mountain has been the company's logo since its inception and is the oldest surviving Hollywood film logo. Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor. It is said to be based on the memories of his childhood in Utah. Some claim that Utah's Ben Lomond is the mountain Hodkinson doodled, and that Peru's Artesonraju[17] is the mountain in the live-action logo.



The logo began as a somewhat indistinct charcoal rendering of the mountain ringed with twenty-four superimposed stars. 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. In 1952, the logo was redesigned as a matte painting. In 1974 the logo was simplified and the number of stars was changed to twenty-two. The logo was replaced in 1987, Paramount's 75th Anniversary, by a version created by Apogee, Inc. with a computer generated lake and stars. For Paramount's 90th anniversary in 2002, a new, completely computer-generated logo was created.[18][19] This current visual opening to Paramount titles has no sound, occasionally sound from the film may play in the final seconds of the opening. In 2002, The Paramount 1975 fanfare is heard during the open to Mean Girls. A very rare opening fanfare is used on the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard and is available to watch on YouTube. [9]



The logo has sometimes been incorporated into a film. In the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the logo dissolves into a shot of a silhouetted mountain peak, subtitled simply "South America", to begin the first scene of the film. The same idea would be incorporated into the beginnings of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and possibly the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Also, the logo (with the opening notes of "Mountain Town" playing over the sequence) dissolves into an opening shot in the animated film South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, turning into a mountain in the cartoon's animation style. As well as in The Core, the camera zooms down and goes to the core of the mountain. And in Four Brothers, there is snow falling on top of the mountain (with Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" as background music). During the opening credits of Coming to America, the camera flies past the mountain, over foothills and into the jungle where the fictional palace of Zamunda is located.



There is an even more direct self-reference in Road to Utopia, a Paramount picture. Bing and Bob are riding along on a dogsled, and they see a mountain in the distance. Bob says, "There it is, bread and butter!" Bing says, "That's just a mountain." Cut to the mountain, and the circle of stars winks in around it, identifying it as the Paramount logo. Bob says to Bing, "It may be just a mountain to you, but it's 'bread and butter' to me!"



A similar self-reference appears in the 1951 Popeye cartoon Alpine for You. At the end of this cartoon, Popeye punches Bluto and he lands on the peak of a mountain top which then sprouts stars to create the Paramount logo.[10]



Not long before the United Paramount Network (UPN) was merged with the WB to form the CW Network, there were plans to re-brand UPN as The Paramount Network, featuring a stylized mountain/stars logo to identify the newly-named network with the studio, but the plans were scrapped.
Maudell S
2008-04-30 22:41:15 UTC
i don't know the answer to that one. it may or may not be a real mountain on the paramount title.


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