[One Day Wonder]

At the beginning of movies done by Paramount Pictures...... What is the mountain they use?

[MooseAndSquirrel]

Is this a test? A simple search with Google got these two results that might help explain this little mystery: 1)http://www.wesclark.com/ubn/paramount_mountain.html 2)http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/fs/20020305/101535591800.html The best use of the logo and undoubtably a homage to it was during the opening scene in Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark"- that was pretty cool. That particular mountain was in Hawaii where they did some of the exterior filming.

[Quark]

Always running to Google takes the fun out of a neat-o trivia question. Stop it! Let's have good old fashioned fun for a change. Without looking at the website provided, I'd say it's Shuksan. Seem's I read it somewhere. In a BOOK.

[MooseAndSquirrel]

Well slap my wrist, I guess I've been quarked! I put down the book I was reading , and just had to reply to your admonition to stop taking the fun out of guessing what the darn mountain was by using Google- hoo boy. Sheesh, if the technology is there why not use it. And like you said you don't have to read some of the results I found. And I don't think it's Shuksan BTW- good try though. Now, back to my books... M&S

[Quark]

well, somebody used Shuksan for something... I know that seems like a fairly vague statement and all, but when you really think about it, it's pretty darn solid.

[MooseAndSquirrel]

You're right there, Shuksan is a pretty solid piece of real estate. As well as one of the most photographed mountains in the U.S. if not the world. I know I read that somewhere. It's used as a backdrop in lots of car and truck commercials for instance, and countless photo books. Prudential would have used it if they hadn't gone ahead and patented Gibraltor already- oh most definitely.

[MooseAndSquirrel]

Ah hell, maybe that Prudential rock is Haystack Rock next to Cannon Beach, Oregon....

[Larry]

It seems like I read once that Mount Shuksan is shown as a huge mural in Grand Central Station in New York, but that the image is backwards. Am I dreaming, or did I read that?

[pappy-]

Heard about the mural in GCS of Shuk.. Didn't know it was reversed? No way the rock in the Paramount logo is Shuksan. Reminds me of one of those paintings the late Bob "happy little trees" Ross painted on PBS.

[skookum ouzel]

Pappy, I am rather of the same mind as you - I always figured the Paramount mountain was simply a painting.

[NN]

Logo FAQ

[Larry]

[Stefan]

The mountain looks like it would be something from the Andes. Alas, it is just a painting......

[Tom]

Bob Ross, now that's some classic public television! The spinoffs just don't compare.

[#19]

His voice could put the worst insomniac to sleep. "and down in these bushes, all kinds of little critters live"...zzzzzzzzzzzzz