Screen Gems

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Screen Gems
Other forms of name
Columbia Pictures Corporation. Screen Gems
Columbia Pictures Industries. Screen Gems
SG (Screen Gems)
Start period
1948
End period
1974
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Television program distribution
Television program production
Associated Language
eng
Biographical or Historical Data
Screen Gems was a television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Corporation, which operated between 1948 and 1974.
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 312731973
Wikidata: Q1370297
Library of congress: n 93058742
Sources of Information
  • The auto clinic [MP] 1938:credits (Screen Gems, Inc.)
  • Columbia Pictures, c1992:p. 12 (Screen Gems was originally the name under which Columbia's shorts were made; in 1948, a new Screen Gems, Inc. was created as a subsidiary of Columbia to produce commercials and television programs)
  • Screen Gems, 1991:p. 4 (Screen Gems (SG) incorporated in New York in Nov., 1948 as a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures Corporation) p. 19 (on Dec. 16, 1968, Screen Gems, Inc. merged into Columbia Pictures Corporation, which later became Columbia Pictures Industries, and continued to do business as tv subsidiary until 1974) p. 23 (in 1974, Screen Gems became Columbia Pictures Television)
  • LC data base, 6/7/94(hdg.: Screen Gems)