The post's caption read: "The Paramount Pictures logo on the day it was originally painted, 1965." The image has repeatedly circulated on social media.

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 ...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been seeing some version of Paramount’s logo in front of films for four decades. Movies that I bonded over with people I cherished or escaped into when life ...

This mountain has since changed design, and so have the number of stars (from 24 to 22). “The original logo had 24 stars (for each of the two dozen actors under contract in 1916),” TIME writes.

Paramount has used a mountain logo since 1914, and as the company expanded to become a media giant that owned properties like CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon, it became one of the most well-known brands ...