Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation

Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation (also known as CBC Film Sales or simply CBC) was an American film studio that was founded on June 19, 1918 by brothers Harry and Jack Cohn and their friend and co-worker at Independent Moving Pictures, Joe Brandt with $250 of capital.[1] The headquarters were at 1600 Broadway in New York.[1]

Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation
TypePrivate
IndustryFilm
FateRe-branded as Columbia Pictures in 1924
SuccessorColumbia Pictures
FoundedJune 19, 1918 (1918-06-19)
FoundersHarry and Jack Cohn
Joe Brandt
Defunct10 January 1924 (1924-01-10)
Key people
Harry Cohn (President)
ProductsMotion pictures

Brandt was the president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. CBC Film's early productions were low-budget short subjects: Screen Snapshots (started in 1920),[1] the "Hall Room Boys" (the vaudeville duo of Edward Flanagan and Neely Edwards), and the Chaplin imitator Billy West.[2] The start-up CBC leased space in a Poverty Row studio on Hollywood's famously low-rent Gower Street. The studio released its first feature film More to Be Pitied Than Scorned on August 20, 1922. Its success led the company to open its own film exchanges.[1]

Among Hollywood's elite, the studio's small-time reputation led some to joke that "CBC" stood for "Corned Beef and Cabbage". The studio's last film to be released was Innocence on December 1, 1923. The Cohn brothers renamed the CBC Film Sales as Columbia Pictures on January 10, 1924, in hopes to improve its image.

Filmography
Release date Title Notes
August 20, 1922More to Be Pitied Than ScornedA CBC Film release
December 15, 1922Only a Shop GirlA CBC Film release
March 1, 1923TemptationA CBC Film release
April 16, 1923Her Accidental HusbandA CBC Film release
August 15, 1923Mary of the MoviesCo-produced with FBO
August 15, 1923The Barefoot BoyA CBC Film release
August 15, 1923Yesterday's WifeA CBC Film release
September 15, 1923Forgive and ForgetA CBC Film release
October 25, 1923The Marriage MarketA CBC Film release
December 1, 1923InnocenceThe last CBC Film release

See also

References
  1. "Jack Cohn Dead; Film Pioneer, 67". The New York Times. December 10, 1956. p. 31. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  2. The Hollywood Story, by Joel Waldo Finler, page 81
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