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Book SynopsisColumbia Pictures will reach a major milestone in 2024 by celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Columbia's incorporation. In the same vein of recent Hollywood movie studio titles such as Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot, Paramount: City of Dreams, and MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot, this new book documents the studio history of Columbia Pictures Corporation in Hollywood, as well as Columbia's back lot in Burbank, California. This book reveals how Columbia came to be founded by Joe Brandt, and Brothers Harry and Jack Cohn in 1924, and uses the studio tour concept to describe its history of filmmaking, which includes the making if such movies as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,From Here to Eternity, The Bridge on River Kwai as well as many serials and television programs. The book has approximately 550 photos, including studio documents, vintage publicity stills and candid's, along with aerial views and maps. The majority of the photos have never been publish
