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 ...

Paramount Pictures adopted its mountain logo — designed by the studio's founder, William Wadsworth Hodkinson — in 1914, the company confirmed via LinkedIn message.

“The original logo had 24 stars (for each of the two dozen actors under contract in 1916),” TIME writes. Though Paramount says “the meaning behind [the stars] has always been a subject of ...