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----Screen Gems was founded by Margaret J. Winkler in 1921 under the name M.J. Winkler Pictures/Productions. Charles Mintz rebranded it to Winkler Pictures after taking it over in 1926 and partnered with Columbia Pictures for distribution in 1929. it was renamed to The Charles Mintz Studio later. in 1933 The Charles Mintz Studio became Screen Gems (which came from Columbia Pictures' early slogan: ''"Gems of the Screen"'', which was a take on the song ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKXBvJODIM Columbia, the Gem Of The Ocean]''. before his death Mintz gave Screen Gems to Columbia. it then shut down in 1949. it later then merged with Pioneer Telefilms

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=== Background ===

Screen Gems was founded by Margaret J. Winkler in 1921 under the name M.J. Winkler Pictures/Productions. Charles Mintz rebranded it to Winkler Pictures after taking it over in 1926 and partnered with Columbia Pictures for distribution in 1929. it was renamed to The Charles Mintz Studio later. in 1933 The Charles Mintz Studio became Screen Gems (which came from Columbia Pictures' early slogan: ''"Gems of the Screen"'', which was a take on the song ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKXBvJODIM Columbia, the Gem Of The Ocean]''. before his death Mintz gave Screen Gems to Columbia. it then shut down in 1949. it later then merged with Pioneer Telefilms

Ralph Cohn, Jack Cohn and Harry Cohn founded Pioneer Telefilms in 1947. Columbia acquired it for 50k bucks and turned it into Screen Gems. the new Screen Gems started on April 15th 1949. in 1951 it became a full-fledged tv studio. in the 50s Screen Gems started owning TV and radio stations. it somehow partially had [[Canal 11 Televisión|Canal 11 Televisi''ó''n]] in Venezuela from 1966 to 1968. in 1963 Screen Gems entered music publishing and from it the music division they made, Screen Gems-Columbia Music got sold to EMI for 23,5 million bucks in 1976. in 1965 [[Columbia Pictures]] acquired a fifty per cent interested in [[Elliot Unger Elliot, Inc.|EUE]], which was then merged with Screen Gems and became [[EUE/Screen Gems, Ltd.|EUE/Screen Gems]]. (Those studios were then sold in 1982 to George Cooney). on december 23rd 1968 Screen Gems merged with Columbia Pictures Corporation and became [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc]] for 24.5 million bucks. on May 6th, 1974 Screen Gems was renamed to [[Columbia Pictures Television]]. and then a lot more stuff happened.

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 page originally created by [[User:Boberrybiscuit|Boberrybiscuit]] on 11/24/2024.
-----Screen Gems was founded by Margaret J. Winkler in 1921 under the name M.J. Winkler Pictures/Productions. Charles Mintz rebranded it to Winkler Pictures after taking it over in 1926 and partnered with Columbia Pictures for distribution in 1929. it was renamed to The Charles Mintz Studio later. in 1933 The Charles Mintz Studio became Screen Gems (which came from Columbia Pictures' early slogan: ''"Gems of the Screen"'', which was a take on the song ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKXBvJODIM Columbia, the Gem Of The Ocean]''. before his death Mintz gave Screen Gems to Columbia. it then shut down in 1949. it later then merged with Pioneer Telefilms
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+=== Background ===
+Screen Gems was founded by Margaret J. Winkler in 1921 under the name M.J. Winkler Pictures/Productions. Charles Mintz rebranded it to Winkler Pictures after taking it over in 1926 and partnered with Columbia Pictures for distribution in 1929. it was renamed to The Charles Mintz Studio later. in 1933 The Charles Mintz Studio became Screen Gems (which came from Columbia Pictures' early slogan: ''"Gems of the Screen"'', which was a take on the song ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKXBvJODIM Columbia, the Gem Of The Ocean]''. before his death Mintz gave Screen Gems to Columbia. it then shut down in 1949. it later then merged with Pioneer Telefilms
 Ralph Cohn, Jack Cohn and Harry Cohn founded Pioneer Telefilms in 1947. Columbia acquired it for 50k bucks and turned it into Screen Gems. the new Screen Gems started on April 15th 1949. in 1951 it became a full-fledged tv studio. in the 50s Screen Gems started owning TV and radio stations. it somehow partially had [[Canal 11 Televisión|Canal 11 Televisi''ó''n]] in Venezuela from 1966 to 1968. in 1963 Screen Gems entered music publishing and from it the music division they made, Screen Gems-Columbia Music got sold to EMI for 23,5 million bucks in 1976. in 1965 [[Columbia Pictures]] acquired a fifty per cent interested in [[Elliot Unger Elliot, Inc.|EUE]], which was then merged with Screen Gems and became [[EUE/Screen Gems, Ltd.|EUE/Screen Gems]]. (Those studios were then sold in 1982 to George Cooney). on december 23rd 1968 Screen Gems merged with Columbia Pictures Corporation and became [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc]] for 24.5 million bucks. on May 6th, 1974 Screen Gems was renamed to [[Columbia Pictures Television]]. and then a lot more stuff happened.