audience & institutions
TRANSCRIPT
• Founded as C.B.C Films corporation in May 1919 by Jack Cohn and Brandt.• It’s name was changed to Columbia Pictures in 1924
and it went public in 1926.• Their first feature film was released on August 1922
The early years
• In 1989 Columbia Pictures was bought by Sony.• It is now a part of Sony Pictures Entertainment,
which is then owned by the top company Sony Corporation of America.