Paramount Pictures (commonly known as Paramount Studios or simply Paramount, and formerly known as Famous Players-Lasky Corporation) is a film studio, television production company and motion picture distributor, consistently ranked as one of the "Big Six" film studios of Hollywood. It is a subsidiary of U.S. media conglomerate Paramount. Paramount is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital-form only.
Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, and America's oldest running studio, founded in 1912.
Paramount Pictures is the distributor of several VHS tapes and DVD's, as well as the movie series.
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The opening shot of the 1986-2003 Paramount Pictures logo by Flip Your Lid Animation Studios/Studio Productions
The opening shot of the 1986-2003 Paramount Pictures logo by Flip Your Lid Animation Studios/Studio Productions
The 1989 Paramount Television logo, as featured at the end of Season 1 and most of Season 3 of Rugrats.
The 1990 Paramount Pictures logo, as featured at the end of Season 2 and the first half of 3 of Rugrats and the episode Passover, and the beginning of Season 1 and most of the second half of Season 3 of Rugrats.
The second version of the 1995 Paramount Pictures logo, as featured at the beginning of the first 14 episodes of Season 6 of Rugrats, the French versions of Runaway Reptar and Discover America and the Decade in Diapers DVD.
The third version of the 1995 Paramount Pictures logo, as featured on Season 5 of Rugrats, and 4:3 prints as well as the full-screen DVD print and the USA and UK VHS prints of The Rugrats Movie. Also seen on most pre-2002 Rugrats VHS releases in the US, Canada, UK and Australia, the end of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie and most of Season 6-7 episodes of Rugrats starting with I Do, the Season 8 episodes Early Retirement, The Big Sneeze and The Age of Aquarium, and the Mysteries VHS.
The opening shot of the 1999-2002 enhanced variant of the 1986-2003 Paramount Pictures logo by Pittard Sullivan.
The Paramount 90th anniversary logo, as featured in most of Season 8 and the first half of Season 9 of Rugrats, the Halloween and Christmas VHS tapes, and the Mysteries DVD.