Paramount Pictures adopted its mountain logo — designed by the studio's founder, William Wadsworth Hodkinson — in 1914, the company confirmed via LinkedIn message.

“The original logo had 24 stars (for each of the two dozen actors under contract in 1916),” TIME writes. Though Paramount says “the meaning behind [the stars] has always been a subject of ...

Legend has it that the iconic star-crested mountain logo of Paramount Pictures was born in 1914 from a simple napkin doodle by co-founder W.W. Hodkinson, inspired by his childhood memories of the ...

The mountain logo in use, ca. 1924. [Image: John Kisch Archive/Getty Images] 110 years of logo history. Paramount has used a mountain logo since 1914, and as the company expanded to become a media ...

Today, Paramount Television Studios President Nicole Clemens announced that the division will shut down by the end of the week via a memo sent to employees, according to Deadline.