10 Facts About Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an American brand name used by Sony Pictures' Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate, Sony Group Corporation.

Screen Gems was, in an attempt to keep costs low, the last American animation studio to stop producing black and white cartoons.

The final black-and-white Screen Gems shorts appeared in 1946, over three years after the second-longest holdouts .

Screen Gems cartoons were only moderately successful in comparison to those of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Warner Bros.

From 1958 to 1974, under President John H Mitchell and Vice President of Production Harry Ackerman, Screen Gems delivered TV shows and sitcoms: Dennis the Menace, The Donna Reed Show, Hazel, Here Come the Brides, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Gidget, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Flying Nun, The Monkees, and The Partridge Family.

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On December 23,1968, Screen Gems merged with its parent company Columbia Pictures Corporation and became part of the newly formed Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc for $24.

On May 6,1974, Screen Gems was renamed to Columbia Pictures Television as suggested by then-studio president David Gerber, who succeeded Art Frankel as his studio president.

The name "Screen Gems" was utilized for a syndicated hour-long program for classic television called Screen Gems Network that first aired in 1999 and ran until 2002.

On December 8,1998, Screen Gems was resurrected as a fourth speciality film-producing arm of Sony's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.

Screen Gems produces and releases "films that fall between the wide-release films traditionally developed and distributed by Columbia Pictures and those released by Sony Pictures Classics".