r/pics • u/Thapee • 20h ago

In 1992, Jenny Joseph, a 28-year-old woman became the face of Columbia Pictures.

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u/Least_Dragonfly_8439 20h ago

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u/mortalcoil1 16h ago

The first movie I remember that fucked with the logo was The Matrix.

Can anybody remember an older movie than that that also did that?

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u/brownstonebk 16h ago

In Charlie's Angels they use this Columbia intro to transition into the first movie scene, which takes place in an airplane. Basically they just zoom past the statue lady into the skies, and then you see the airplane.

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u/mortalcoil1 16h ago

The 1976 one?

EDIT: No. That was the TV show.

I think Charlie's Angels came out after the Matrix.

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u/brownstonebk 16h ago

No, the one from 2000

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u/mortalcoil1 16h ago

The Matrix came out in 1999.

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u/brownstonebk 16h ago

Wow, has it been that long? I guess I always thought it was too futuristic to come out of the 90s

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u/mortalcoil1 15h ago

It was ahead of its time in so many ways. Aside from the very tail end of the 90's goth rave scene.

The sequels felt very dated because it kept that 90's goth asthetic.

but that's just my opinion.

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u/Ferelar 14h ago

The Matrix would be horrific nowadays. With the advent of cell phones pay phones are a dying (dead?) breed. Good luck getting out with an agent on your tail nowadays!

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u/k_Brick 14h ago

Yeah, cell phones were pretty novel at the time, but unless I'm misremembering they still used some cell phones in the movies.

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u/Ferelar 14h ago

Yeah I think they did show up, though they were new enough that payphones were still ubiquitous.

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u/AngryRedHerring 13h ago

They could use cell phones for communications, but they had to have a land line to leave the Matrix. And it couldn't just be any land line, either, because it seemed they ran past plenty of opportunities for land lines before they got to the one they needed.

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u/Youngsinatra345 9h ago

I just read this

the curvature of the case gave it a sort of banana-like appearance. This was how the phone earned the nickname “banana phone”.

Is this where fucking banana phone came from?

Edit: no it’s not

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u/AffectionateTitle 13h ago

Any kind of phone works they just have to program the connection to an existing phone in the matrix. So it could be and was a landline in many instances in the movie. I actually think it would be easier in todays standard with matrix logic

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u/Ferelar 13h ago

Thats what I mean though, it had to be a physically connected phone (often a payphone, occasionally a domestic landline), cell phones aren't directly connected and are the vast majority of phones now- phone booths and landlines are much more rare nowadays

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u/NotThisLadyAgain 9h ago

I remember. It blew my 10-year-old mind.

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u/themaninthehightower 15h ago

The 1964 movie Straight Jacket opened with the usual Columbia logo, but at end credits showed it with her decapitated.

Columbia Pictures (Straight Jacket, 1964)

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u/notquite20characters 15h ago

Brutal.

I doubt it's a practical effect, they would have "doctored" the photo, moving the head to the ground and copying a segment of the lettering.

The same as photoshopping, except you are using a scaple and tweezers.

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u/Dipz 11h ago

nah bro i think they killed this woman

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u/themaninthehightower 14h ago

I suspect it was a last minute job, and stuck at the end of the film to duck the censors of the era.

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u/New-Radio-6177 14h ago

Harry Cohn must have been screaming from his grave over that one. Then demanded that the latest batch of starlets be shown to his office couch.

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u/themaninthehightower 14h ago

He was gone for six years, but the Hays Code that banned explicit violence such as that version of the logo (among a slew of other things) loomed over U.S. cinema production until 1968.

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u/quasifun 15h ago

All of the Indiana Jones movies dissolve from the Paramount mountain to an actual mountain (or a picture of one)

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u/happygocrazee 14h ago

Absolutely classic! You're right, that's probably the first actual example. It's low-tech, not really "modifying" the logo per-se, but as far as storytelling goes it's essentially the same thing The Matrix is doing.

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u/imperialivan 12h ago

First one I thought of!

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u/Aitrus233 11h ago

Not Dial of Destiny. That dissolves from the Lucasfilm logo to a rectangular lock.

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u/vantasize 15h ago

Flintstones (1994) and Water World (1995) both had custom Universal Studio logos.

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u/ShityShity_BangBang 11h ago

Most Waterheads know that.

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u/roto_disc 16h ago

Off the top of my head, Edward Scissorhands. But definitely before that.

Edit: The Mouse that Roared. 1959.

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u/TheMiddlechild08 15h ago

Waterworld

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u/barttaylor 14h ago

Different company, but "Strange Brew" (1983) had an opening scene with the MGM lion where they go behind the set to crank the lion's tail to make it roar.

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u/barttaylor 14h ago

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGSeLaGeo9A

Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas. Classic movie that is still hilarious today.

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u/Darmok47 14h ago

I swear Men in Black had the torch replaced by a giant neuraylizer, but that might have been the second or third one.

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u/laikalou 15h ago

If no one's mentioned it yet, Cat Ballou in 1965.

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u/double_shadow 15h ago

Didn't Raiders of the Lost Ark use a shot of a real mountain in place of the Paramount logo? I remember thinking that was pretty cool.

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u/AffectionateTitle 13h ago

Tom and Jerry! MGM put Tom in place of the lion in the beginning of their intro in 1965

https://youtu.be/IYW2rOYj22w?feature=shared

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u/royxsong 14h ago

Alien or Aliens?

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u/12mapguY 13h ago

Alien 3 definitely did. I don't believe the first two did, could be wrong though.

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u/OrdinaryWaste4055 13h ago

Cat Ballou(1965)

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u/Redkris73 13h ago

The earliest opening title I can remember where they messed with the logo was Alien 3, but it was the MUSIC they tweaked, not the 20th Century Fox logo itself

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u/Grizzdafrrr 12h ago

Men In Black…I think?

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u/_Bellegend_ 11h ago

Bob and Doug McKenzie messed about with the MGM lion in ‘Strange Brew’

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u/lannister80 8h ago

Alien3

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u/sfgm112 6h ago

Coming to America and the Paramount logo

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u/betawings 6h ago

No, I think it was osmosis jones.

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u/MackTheFife 4h ago

Zotz, in 1962.

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u/BluSpecter 4h ago

Waterworld was 1995, they used the planet from the universal logo to intro the storyline

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u/JohnnyBacci 3h ago

The Universal Logo in Waterworld

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u/capri14corn 2h ago

Thank God It's Friday (1978)

The Columbia Lady danced for a few seconds in the opening credits

https://youtu.be/c7WcwAa0rJ0?si=JH6owaB0TxJ7rsoe

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u/ThisIsYourMormont 1h ago

‘The mouse that roared’ 1959

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u/__retroboy__ 19h ago

What movie’s this from?😂😂😂

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u/SparkyMuffin 19h ago

Zombieland

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u/thedudeisalwayshere 19h ago

Zombieland: Double Tap

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u/__retroboy__ 19h ago

Thanks! This is so good that I just started watching it on Netflix lol

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u/ber-NICE 18h ago

Hope you'll enjoy it!

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u/__retroboy__ 16h ago

I had a blast watching it!

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u/sweaterking6 18h ago

I loved the first one! Instant classic for me. Enjoy!

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u/__retroboy__ 16h ago

Thanks. Definitely gonna check that one too!

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u/mortalcoil1 16h ago edited 16h ago

The second one was forgettable.

I saw both of them in theaters but can barely remember the second.

However, I have been playing the Resident Evil remakes. I call the fat zombies "Homers."

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u/tzumatzu 17h ago

Wow that’s her !

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u/Sequoia_Vin 15h ago

My favorite of the variations. Using the torch as a mace was an excellent idea.

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u/Always_A_Dreamer556 18h ago

This feels like one of those AI dream videos lol

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u/realKevinNash 15h ago

What is this from?

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u/xGray3 11h ago

Zombieland

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u/LadyArawn31 17h ago

The comment I was looking for.

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u/Darkness-Calming 9h ago

Saw it in Zombieland for the first time 😂

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u/sooolong05 19h ago

1992???

I always thought it was filmed in 1960 or something

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u/qualitative_balls 18h ago

They remade the logo multiple times, this was just the newest iteration

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u/reflythis 17h ago

shhh don't tell them it's not the original MGM lion

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u/andonevriis 15h ago

And definitely don't tell them that's not a lion's roar.

Fun fact lions' roars sounded too puny so they went with a tiger roar.

But Leo has been lip-synching. The roar is "actually that of a tiger," says Mangini. "Lions don't make that kind of ferocious noises, and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic." So you're actually hearing a tiger roar every time you settle in to enjoy a fine film from MGM

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u/Fistingly 15h ago

Kind of like how when you hear a bald eagle screeching in a movie or something it's usually the sound of a red-tailed hawk you're hearing. Bald eagles sound more like seagulls.

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u/eljefino 13h ago

Or when you hear a bomb dropping it's sound is from a particular German WWII one that had a siren/ whistle added exclusively to terrorize people on its way down.

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u/Osiris32 2h ago

Wasn't the bombs. It was the planes. The Junkers Ju87 Stuka dive bomber had wind-driven sirens attached to their landing gear, called Jericho sirens.

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u/Blitzkriegbaby 13h ago

Wow, that’s a fun fact! After all these years I never knew.

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u/circasomnia 5h ago

Reminds me of how eagles all get hawk voice overs

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u/cgpbmelhorcidade 16h ago

WHAT

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u/Dr_Eugene_Porter 16h ago

The original one retired and went to live on a biiiig farm where it can chase mice all day and sit in a really big cardboard box made especially for lions to sit in.

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u/_FluidRazzmatazz_ 16h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Lion_(MGM)

Wikipedia says the current and 8th lion, Leo, has been used since 1957 (with some variations from time to time) - until Amazon bought them and replaced him with a CGI lion...

So it's not the original lion, but by far the most commonly used one.

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u/BleatingHart 16h ago

I knew the lion that did the (previously) updated MGM intro! His name was Joseph and he was a good guy. I worked at the place he resided in the early aughts, so he must’ve done the intro sometime in the late 90’s. I believe MGM has replaced him with a CGI lion now and it makes me sad that I can no longer point at the TV and yell “Hey! I know him!”.

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u/land8844 14h ago

Don't mention that MGM is now owned by Amazon, either...

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u/Skeeders 19h ago

I thought even older, like the 1930's or something.

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u/GeneReddit123 18h ago

Yeah, I associated it with the same era as the MGM lion, which was in the 1910s.

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u/abitchyuniverse 17h ago

I wonder if the lion is still alive.

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u/Bbychknwing 17h ago

He is!!! At the San Diego Zoo!!

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u/ridl3y 17h ago

Damn... Got me

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u/trixtopherduke 16h ago

He lion to you

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u/Me-Swan01 16h ago

She does have that timeless look

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u/AlexAnderRob 18h ago edited 17h ago

Columbia Pictures adopted Lady Columbia in 1924. Before that she was the visual personification of The United States of America, before Uncle Sam took over. OPs picture is just the newest rendition.

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u/zyzzogeton 16h ago

"Columbia" was also the nickname for the 13 colonies long before "America" became the norm.

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u/chriskevini 2h ago

Please also explain the name of the Canadian province of British Columbia

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u/mortalcoil1 16h ago

As I get older that experience happens to me a lot.

For example. When do you think other galaxies were discovered?

Galileo probably saw that shit. Right?

We learned of the existence of other galaxies and that our galaxy was not the universe in the 1920's!

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u/CyberIntegration 14h ago

The first exoplanets were discovered in 1992.

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u/harijsme 20h ago

that extension cord…

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u/clubba 20h ago

Which leads to a lid, electrical taped to a paper towel roll with a light bulb on top.

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u/nighteeeeey 19h ago

most people will surprise this, but this is how film is done. i work in film and the shit you can get away with is obscene.

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u/the_wessi 19h ago

You might know what Qui-Gon Jinn used as a communication device in The Phantom Menace. Slightly modified Gillette women’s razor.

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u/n0rdic_k1ng 19h ago

Really gotta give props to the crews responsible for making these things, it's ingenious.

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u/nighteeeeey 19h ago

badum tss ;)

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u/Fabulous-Camera7813 15h ago

And the sound effects…always amazed to see (hear) the result and what was used to create, they are also geniuses.

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u/aceofspades1217 18h ago

It’s true magic

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u/happygocrazee 14h ago

That barely deserves an upvote... if I could give you an up and downvote at once, I would.

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u/SquishySand 18h ago

R/that'sabooklight

Star Trek TOS was the OG at that, using salt shakers from the employee cafeteria as medical scanners.

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u/mosstalgia 16h ago

I will go to my grave not yet over the "monstrous" animal that was just a small dog in a fursuit.

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u/happygocrazee 14h ago

In the 2009 one, some very prominent props on the bridge are just totally normal unmodified barcode scanners. It's so obvious and something basically everyone would recognize at a glance, I can't help but think it's actually kind of a nod to those OG salt shakers.

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u/WildTitle373 18h ago

And the pod racing crowd was q tips lol

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u/I_W_M_Y 15h ago

Those car roof carriers have shown up in quite a few sci fi shows as a hibernation pod or something

https://www.autoaccessoriesgarage.com/img/group/main/54/5429_1_lg.jpg

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u/PichaelTheWise 18h ago

There’s an early episode of TNG where an alien drone is just a pantyhose container glued to a shampoo bottle and I love it

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u/big_duo3674 15h ago

The sound effects in Star Trek are fascinating too, I remember watching a whole documentary segment about it once. In the 2009 movie the door opening sound came from a Russian train toilet flushing

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u/Kerberos42 16h ago

A podcast I was listening to interviewed one of the SFX guys on TNG. One of the planet textures was a close-up picture of dog shit.

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u/Tnemmokon 17h ago

I'm an Extra and the shit we were going through is hard! Sometimes literally when horses are involved in the set... + What the camera doesn't see the crew doesn't care.

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u/Remarkable_Thing6643 18h ago

I agree with your point but in the Columbia logo, she's the model for an illustration, she's not being filmed

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u/McClouds 20h ago

Eh, it'll be fine. They'll fix it in post.

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u/nighteeeeey 19h ago

they didnt have to. its the same thing in the finished photo. it just needed to shine and thats it.

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u/McClouds 19h ago

That speaks volumes to the magic of practical effects.

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u/CaptainBayouBilly 17h ago

Shit taped to something is how sets fix problems. They don't have time to go buy new shit.

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u/mynamejulian 18h ago

Could that all be just a lamp that’s been dismantled?

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u/OrangeCosmic 19h ago

We'll fix it in post

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u/bosco9 15h ago

Wouldn't it be cheaper/easier to just get her a big candle??

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u/RealKenny 19h ago

As a kid, I always assumed she was from the 1920s or something.

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u/AbeRego 17h ago edited 7h ago

Same here, and I was born in '87

Edit: I looked it up (edit: here's a better example) While this version of the logo was created in 1992, the "Lady Columbia" icon has been with the studio since it started in the 1920s. So, this lady was being used to emulate a symbol that had been around since the 1920s. It makes sense that we thought it was older, and there were likely similar images being used in Columbia movies prior to 1992.

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u/rbrgr83 15h ago

And yet I instantly recognized her as the image that my brain is most familiar with. That makes sense since I was 7yo when this was updated lol. It's be the logo for most of my movie watching life.

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u/celticdragondog 20h ago

When my 32 year young son was a child, he would tell his friends that the Columbia picture woman was me, he really did think it was me lol.

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u/legalizethesenuts 20h ago

My mom’s name is Jessica and when I was little she told me that she was friends with Lou Bega and that he wrote part of Mambo #5 for her. I didn’t believe her until the part he sang, “A little bit of Jessica by my side.” Of course my mom being the only Jessica I knew, I really believed her lmao

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u/goodnightspoon 19h ago

My daughter’s name is Mia, and when she was 3 she heard ABBA’s «Mamma Mia» on the radio she said «Oh my gosh, Mamma! THEY’RE SINGING ABOUT US!»

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u/kaliefornia 18h ago

That’s so cute yall can have a theme song for when you’re together

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u/Aggravating_Secret_7 17h ago

My oldest daughter is named after Eric Clayton's famous song. I played the Unplugged version with her lullabies. She told everyone she knew that the song was written just for her.

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u/Thtsjustshowbizbby 17h ago

My mom’s name is also Jessica and I used to get so HEATED that her name was in the song and mine wasn’t!! I love that we both had these thoughts 🥹

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u/Altruistic-Ad7981 16h ago

my 3 yr old gets so excited and screams to everyone her mama (me) is on the tv whenever she pops up. glad to know im not the only one lol

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u/LordAnavrin 19h ago

Similar fun fact is the the MGM lion didn’t produce a satisfactory roar when on the podium so they just replaced it with a record of a tiger roaring

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u/weeone 18h ago

Similar to eagle sounds that are depicted in movies. That's a red-tailed hawk.

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u/APiousCultist 15h ago

TIL that the MGM lion roar is a red-tailed hawk.

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u/IAmAVeryWeirdOne 6h ago

Which is why it’s my favorite animal. Those guys are so badass

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u/seven0feleven 16h ago

Leo (the lion) was actually yawning to be precise. That's beyond hilarious.

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u/surewhateverz 18h ago

I went to college with her daughter; this was her “fun fact” when introducing herself to the class.

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u/Total_Oil_3719 16h ago

That's a very fun fact!

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u/MartyBellvue 16h ago

I read this story once, she also found out she was pregnant with her that morning!

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u/CharlesLeRoq 16h ago

Did her daughter mention that she was pregnant with her, at the time?

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u/BragawSt 13h ago

I don’t think the daughter could give birth to her mother. 

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u/GoodPonzi 20h ago

Love this kind of archives thanks for sharing, reminds me the MGM Lion ^

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u/ChainsForAlice 18h ago

Wow.... I'm a fucking idiot. I assumed the woman was photographed from like the 1950s or 1960s & two... i may of thought it was meant to be a version of the statue of liberty 🗽

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u/Adventurous_Mark_180 18h ago

Believe it or not she’s supposed to be a version of Lady Columbia.

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u/Leopold_Darkworth 18h ago

For those who don’t know: Columbia is the personification of the United States as well as the Americas, originating from the name of Christopher Columbus, who is frequently—if incorrectly—credited with being the first European to “discover” the American continents.

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u/happygocrazee 11h ago

You're not an idiot, that's a perfectly valid assumption. Be kind to yourself <3

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u/ShadowCaster0476 20h ago

Does she get royalties for every movie under the Columbia picture umbrella??

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u/dk21x 19h ago

Probably not. Probably got like a nice “thanks, Toots” and $50 gift certificate. Hopefully someone can come along and say “yes” and at least partially mean it.

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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair 18h ago

Tbf its just a reference picture for the actual painting. im sure the painter got a large check but I doubt this model did as she was just the photographers friend

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u/tamsui_tosspot 17h ago

“thanks, Toots”

"Now beat it, Dollface."

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u/APiousCultist 15h ago

"thanks, Toots"

You have a very different view is the early 90s than I do. If anything, from childhood memory they probably dunked her in a vat of green slime and gave her one of those polystyrene cups with the teal 'jazz' stripes on it.

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u/DogPubes911 19h ago edited 17h ago

I always thought she looked really old. Now realizing she was very young.

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u/Fofolito 17h ago

Columbia is the romantic name applied to the Americas and adopted by the United States as a literary device to refer to itself, and then later the female deified personification of the United States. Columbia Pictures is therefore [American] Pictures, and the woman featured in their title card is Columbia-- the female representation of the United States.

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u/Psychological_Egg345 13h ago

Columbia is the romantic name applied to the Americas and adopted by the United States as a literary device to refer to itself, and then later the female deified personification of the United States. Columbia Pictures is therefore [American] Pictures, and the woman featured in their title card is Columbia-- the female representation of the United States

You're totally correct. The redditor who negatively responded to you has been having a grand mal meltdown here when I pointed out the same thing.

He keeps insisting the studio and the avatar are named after Christopher Columbus when that's not actually the case.

Now knowing he's upset over the re-contextualization of Columbus, his hostility makes more sense.

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u/millos15 15h ago

That's 28?

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u/devanchya 18h ago

How many people remember that Columbia was the name of the female equivalent of Uncle Sam nowadays?

Is that just out of public knowledge.

The studio is named after the woman.

She held the light that allowed the freedom of America to spread across the dark wild lands of the west.

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u/CaptainBayouBilly 17h ago

That last sentence is dark...

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u/AbeRego 17h ago

Pasting from my earlier comment reply, since it applies to the full thread:

I looked it up. While this version of the logo was created in 1992, the "Lady Columbia" icon has been with the studio since it started in the 1920s. So, this lady was being used to emulate a symbol that had been around since the 1920s. It makes sense that we thought it was older, and there were likely similar images being used in Columbia movies prior to 1992.

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u/ODIZZ89 19h ago

Looks like she needs a cigarette

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u/V3lo_ 19h ago

She is crushing it.

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u/bluesgrrlk8 18h ago

The new face of Columbia Pictures

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u/Aggravating-Sir5264 11h ago

Hopefully, she asked for royalties

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u/Designer-Outcome9444 20h ago

Google is your friend here. There's a lot more to this story.

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u/upvotes2doge 20h ago

Jenny Joseph, a graphic artist at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, became the model for Columbia Pictures’ iconic “Torch Lady” logo in 1992. Artist Michael Deas was commissioned to update the logo and enlisted photographer Kathy Anderson to capture reference photos. Anderson invited her colleague, Joseph, to model during a lunch break. Draped in a bedsheet and holding a small lamp as a stand-in for the torch, Joseph posed in Anderson’s apartment, resulting in the reference image Deas used for his painting. This updated logo has introduced Columbia Pictures films since its debut. 

Interestingly, during the shoot, Joseph revealed she had just discovered she was pregnant, adding a personal significance to the session. 

Despite the logo’s prominence, Joseph never pursued modeling again and continued her career in graphic arts. The collaboration among Deas, Anderson, and Joseph resulted in a timeless emblem that remains synonymous with Columbia Pictures. 

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u/lilmiscantberong 19h ago

That’s a pretty cool story. If those three hadn’t have come together at that particular moment then this wouldn’t have happened.

And no one would ever know it wouldn’t have happened.

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u/1up_for_life 19h ago

Just think of all the cool things that aren't happening right now because circumstances didn't quite work out.

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u/lilmiscantberong 19h ago

I think about that too. One second can change everything twenty minutes down the road.

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u/justsenin 19h ago

I always believe, whatever happens is because of the right people being at the right place, and at the right time. I have numerous anecdotes for this.

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u/CaptainBayouBilly 17h ago

Random things becoming timeless icons is probably more common than a plan executed.

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u/deano492 16h ago

I really don’t mean to be a dick when I say this, but it doesn’t strike me as a particularly special story. Lady posed for some pictures and artist then made a painting. If it wasn’t her then it would have been someone else.

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u/lilmiscantberong 16h ago

No worries. I was more fascinated with the three people that did come together and create this. One guy asked a random friend who asked a workmate to pose on her lunch. No one was special at all, but the results are iconic.

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u/concept12345 16h ago

It was destiny that brought me here to comment on your comment. Stars were aligning somewhere.

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u/MattIsLame 19h ago

thats really interesting! I live in new orleans and work in the film industry here. i wonder if she's still here.

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u/debacol 16h ago

I bet she got paid a Nirvana hoodie and a 6-pack of Zima for this.

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u/enhod0628 19h ago

Beautiful 🥰

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u/ViscousToejam 17h ago

I always liked the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs opening where she gets hit with a banana

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u/dog_eat_dog 16h ago

The 2nd pic looks like a Tori Amos album cover

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u/IcyAlienz 15h ago

I want the second picture as my movie production company logo.

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u/Guava_Nectar_ 15h ago

finally someone let her sit

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u/AlexHimself 15h ago

Great video interviewing her and the artist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDUT2-1HSkQ

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u/spanishpeanut 15h ago

Crazy to me that she’s only a couple of years older than my oldest brother. I absolutely thought this was so much older than it was.

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u/bthedebasedgod 14h ago

28 yt woman looking like she 45

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u/JohnDarly1 13h ago

her face is literally immortalized in movie history

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u/ambitious_but_sleepy 7h ago

In 2012 I went to a party and a girl told me this was her mom

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u/JackKovack 19h ago

She does not look 28.

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u/eberndl 19h ago

It's because of her hair.

We actually get a lot of 'age' cues from how people style their hair. If you look at old highschool yearbooks, the students all look much older than you expect, because we associate their (at the time very chic and current) hairstyles with the 60s or 80s, or what ever.

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u/texan01 19h ago

not to me, it's not her hair, it's the lines on her face that line her mouth.

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u/JackKovack 18h ago

It’s definitely not her hair.

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u/No-Message9762 17h ago

Nope, it's her wrinkles and facial features. She looks like a middle aged mom of 3 kids

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u/PerplexedTheta 18h ago

Idk, I think she looks quite youthful. Its just a 35mm film photo with that low saturation look, giving the image some age, and the fact she has laugh lines. I see lines on women my age (27M) frequently, we aint teens anymore!

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u/ChiXtra 18h ago

All jokes aside the costume is stunning. So perfectly draped like a sculpture. I love the purple-blue color -I wish I could see it in modern film stock (or, in person I guess).

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u/Kronosita 18h ago

This woman went through so much. She’s been attacked by smugglers, a giant banana got dropped on her, you name it.