Paramount and the Mountain

[Pure Awsomeness]

Hello,

Could someone help resolve an argument.

One of my kiRAB copped a punishment the other day, this week end he has to clean out two of the vans thoroughly which is going to break in to his Saturday big time.

However we got into this argument about the name of the mountain used as the Paramount logo within the circle of stars.

I say Everest, he says Kilimanjaro.

At stake----if he's wrong, as well as the vans, he gets to do Mum's and my car next weekend.

 

[ijaz]

Looks like you are both wrong...

"If it is a real mountain at all, however, it is almost certainly 9,712-foot-high Ben Lomond Peak in the Wasatch Range near Ogden, as any Utah tour guide worth his salt will tell you. Even if Hodkinson meant it to be a generic mountain, Ben Lomond is a conspicuous landmark in the Ogden area and would have figured prominently in his conception".

http://www.paramount.com/filmpreservation/history_logo.htm

 

[apok86]

He's wrong.

But so are you.

Wiki says it's either in Utah, Peru, or simply made up.

 

[Caution]

Confirmed by Wikipedia (or probabaly more likely copied by Wikipedia);

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures#The_logo

Will you now be helping wash the cars?

 

[neo198717]

Never mind the mountain, is the pattern of the stars around the mountain based on any known constellation?

 

[jpechbre]

How does that make me wrong then?

 

[MLAchick69]

Hello Blofeld,

No, he made the bet, he had to be right, he is going to be a busy boy the next couple of weekenRAB.

 

[MarsGuo1]

Hello Fizzbin,

A star constellation in a perfect circle?

 

[shayshay115]

I always thought it was based on Mont Blanc, with a pointy peak added on top

Mont Blanc

Paramount logo

There's also the Matterhorn, which is certainly closest in terms of pointyness and steepness.

 

[mulan]

The stars are to symbolize the 24 stars that the studio had on contract at the time.

 

[sugar baby<3]

Paramountis Majoris in the southern hemisphere, often seen early in the morning to the south east of Foxis Minor.