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    As film collectors you must recognize this yellow box with "Columbi a Pictures 50th Anniversary". Many of these releases are from their golden era, so good to have them in our collection. Most of them are in B/W so we do not need to worry with film fading. However, there are at least two downsides I can say, first their boring yellow box without any artworks and secondly, the box spine does not have respective title on it (we must pull it out one by one to find a particular title, hence box will break easily).

    I am googling it and found out that 50th anniversary of Columbia Pictures was in 1975, so two questions here:

    a. Were all titles released in 1975?
    b. How many of them are there, any complete list (with catalog # started by MM-xxxx)

    cheers,
    winbert

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  • #2
    Hi Winbert. Doug posted a complete list of Columbia Classics back on November 9, 2004. He accurately listed 111 titles!!

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    • #3
      And here's a link to that thread!

      Columbia kindly repackaged a number of their releases with actual artwork as they continued on. That Grand Old Forum list is missing a few of their later releases, including Hardcore and The China Syndrome.

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      • #4
        My fav 400ft Columbia's:

        Only Angels Have Wings
        A Christmas Carol
        Requiem For A Heavyweight
        Gilda
        The Jolson Story
        Jolson Sings Again


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        • #5
          Originally posted by Douglas Meltzer View Post
          And here's a link to that thread!

          Columbia kindly repackaged a number of their releases with actual artwork as they continued on. That Grand Old Forum list is missing a few of their later releases, including Hardcore and The China Syndrome.
          I move that list here with a little modification and adding one title that is not in Doug's list, i.e "You can't take it with you"

          I added the cat# so we can check and re-check for the missing numbers. For those titles without the cat# I put them in alphabetical order. If you have the cat# or want to add new titles please copy the below list and paste to your post since I am not able to edit this post after several hours (day?) due to the forum regulation.

          Note: MM-10xx (B/W), MM-50xx (Color)

          MM-1015 Jungle Jim
          MM-1032 Holiday
          MM-1036 You Were Never Lovelier
          MM-1038 Miracle Woman
          MM-1044 Angels Over Broadway
          MM-1047 You can’t take it with you
          MM-5006 Good Day For a Hanging
          MM-5009 Guns of Ft. Petticoat
          MM-5013 Commanche Station
          MM-5019 Murderer's Row
          MM-5020 Jerry Lewis - Three On A Couch
          MM-5024 Lawrence of Arabia
          MM-5025 Guns of Navarone
          MM-5028 Jerry Lewis Big Mouth
          MM-5030 Chase
          MM-5033 Man From Laramie
          MM-5034 Mysterious Island
          MM-5038 Major Dundee
          MM-5039 A Thousand and One Nights
          MM-5046 Hell On Frisco Bay

          All The King's Men
          Anderson Tapes, the
          Awful Truth, the
          Back From Eternity
          Birds Do It, Bees Do It
          Boogie Man Will Get you, the
          Born Free
          Born Yesterday
          Breakout
          Brian's Song
          Bridge On The River Kwai
          Buchanan Rides Alone
          Buck and the Preacher
          Bye, Bye Birdie
          Caine Mutiny, the
          Cat Ballou
          Close Encounters of the Third Kind
          Commandos Strike At Dawn
          Confessions of a Driving Instructor (Parts 1&2)
          Cowboy
          Craig's Wife
          Creature With the Atom Brain
          Deep Six
          Deep, the
          Dirigible
          Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
          Drum Beat
          Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
          Escape From Devil's Island
          Emmanuelle
          Fail Safe
          Forty Guns to Apache Pass
          Fuller Brush Girl
          Fuller Brush Man
          Gamma People, the
          Genghis Khan
          Getting Straight
          Gilda
          Goddess, the
          Golden Boy
          Gorgon, the
          Heat's On, the
          It Came From Beneath the Sea
          It Happened One Night
          Jolson Sings Again
          Jolson Story, the
          Jungle Jim's Manhunt
          Lady From Shanghai, the
          Last Hurrah, the
          Lost Command
          Machine Gun McCain
          Mad Magician (3D), the
          Member of the Wedding
          More From Emmanuelle
          Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
          Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
          My Dog Rusty
          My Sister Eileen
          New Centurions, the
          Odessa File, the
          On the Waterfront
          Only Angels Have Wings
          Pennies From Heaven
          Petty Girl, the
          Platinum Blonde
          Professionals, the
          Queen Boxer
          Requiem for a Heavyweight
          Santa Fe
          Scream of Fear
          Shamus
          Silencers, the
          Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
          So This Is Africa
          Son of Dr. Jekyll
          Song Of India
          Stampede
          Strait-Jacket
          Stranger Wore a Gun
          Submarine
          Taxi Driver
          Tiger Makes Out, the
          Tommy
          Twentieth Century
          Twenty Million Miles to Earth
          Two Fisted Law
          When the Devil Commands
          Where Jesus Walked
          White Line Fever
          Wild One, the
          You'll Never Get Rich



          Last edited by Winbert Hutahaean; June 30, 2021, 07:43 AM.

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          • #6
            In fact Columbia did add some rather basic artwork to some of those boxes. I don't know how widespread this was but I currently have two: The Gorgon (shown here) and All the Kings Men. If the films in the 50th Anniversary boxes were all released in 1975, I suppose it's possible that they added artwork to some left over boxes in 1976! I have a copy of Scream of Fear in the 50th Anniversary box, but I know some later prints of this appeared in properly printed boxes with artwork.

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            • #7
              Columbia also had this generic cover:

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              I have the following titles in boxes with Columbia artwork:

              The Anderson Tapes (2 different covers!)
              Brian's Song
              Buck and the Preacher
              Bye Bye Birdie
              Cat Ballou
              The China Syndrome
              Close Encounters of the Third Kind
              Confessions of a Driving Instructor (2 parts)
              The Deep
              Fail Safe
              Getting Straight
              The Jolson Story
              Lost Command
              Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
              Mysterious Island
              The New Centurions
              The Odessa File
              The Professionals
              Shamus
              Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
              Taxi Driver
              White Line Fever

              Columbia also repackaged a number of films in clamshells with new artwork. I have a few UK Columbia releases (via Mountain Films) that used stills on their cardboard box covers.





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              • #8
                Originally posted by Douglas Meltzer View Post
                Columbia also had this generic cover
                Yes that is right.. but I rarely seen this type of box. Maybe they released it only few of them.

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