Paramount Pictures, Inc. (Corporate Name)

Its Paramount's 20th birthday jubilee, c1931.

Int'l. mo. pic. alm. 1982 (Paramount Pictures, Inc. formed in 1935; formerly known as Paramount Publix Corporation [1930-1935]; name changed back to Paramount Pictures Corporation in 1949 [also used from 1914-1918])

Copyright cat., mo. pic. 1912-1939, 1951 (Paramount Pictures, Inc. appears as copyright claimant for Paramount motion pictures from ca. 1936 to ca. 1939; overlap with Paramount Productions in 1936 probably due to Paramount's corporate reorganizations during that period)

Slide, T. The American film industry, 1986: p. 257 (Paramount suffered financial setbacks in the early 1930s and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1933; in a 1935 reorganization, it re-emerged as Paramount Pictures, Inc.)

Int. mo. pic. alm., 1936-1937: p. 844-845, Companies and personnel section (Paramount Productions, Inc.; Paramount Pictures, Inc.)

Wikipedia, Jan. 21, 2011 (Paramount Pictures, Inc.; est. in 1935; split in two in 1949: production/distribution company reorganized as Paramount Pictures Corporation, theater chain established as United Paramount Theatres)

Paramount Pictures, inc. was formed in 1935 out of a reorganization of Paramount Publix Corporation. The company was divided in 1949 in a court-ordered separation of its motion picture production/distribution units and its movie theater chain. The production and distribution division was reorganized as Paramount Pictures Corporation, and the theaters as United Paramount Theatres.