Paramount Logo -Paramount Pictures Corporation is a company American producer and distributor of cinema , based in Hollywood ( California ). It is controlled by Viacom . Previously controlled by Gulf + Western . It was founded on December 18, 1908 but controlled for the first time in 1910.
Early in the history of cinema in the United States in the 1910’s were established major studios, including Paramount occupies a privileged position, along with Universal Pictures , Fox Film Corporation, which would then be the 20th Century-Fox , the United Artists , the Warner Bros , the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , the Columbia Pictures , the RKO and The Walt Disney Company . During the 30’s this policy of studies is consolidated and that means the rise of cinema American . More