Editing Columbia Pictures (section)

===Early years as CBC Film Sales (1918–1924)===
[[File:CBC Film Sales Corporation (logo, 1919-24).png|right|thumb|The original CBC Film Sales logo used from 1919 through 1924|class=skin-invert]]
The studio was founded on June 19, 1918, as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales by brothers [[Jack Cohn|Jack]] and [[Harry Cohn]] and Jack's best friend [[Joe Brandt]], and released its first feature film ''[[More to Be Pitied Than Scorned]]'' on August 20, 1922. The film, with a budget of $20,000, was a success, bringing in $130,000 in revenue for the company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=フランク・キャプラ、その才能の発掘 {{!}} ソニー・ピクチャーズ公式 |url=https://www.sonypictures.jp/corp/history/28341 |access-date=August 25, 2022 |website= www.sonypictures.jp}}</ref> Brandt was president of CBC Film Sales, handling sales, marketing and distribution from New York along with Jack Cohn, while Harry Cohn ran production in Hollywood. The studio's early productions were low-budget short subjects: ''[[Screen Snapshots]]'', the ''[[Hallroom Boys]]'' (the vaudeville duo of [[Edward Flanagan (actor)|Edward Flanagan]] and [[Neely Edwards]]), and the [[Charlie Chaplin]]-imitator [[Billy West (silent film actor)|Billy West]].<ref>{{cite book|title = The Hollywood Story|first= Joel Waldo|last= Finler| page= 81|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rvVhEJmbfrsC&pg=PA81|publisher = Wallflower Press|date= 2003|isbn = 9781903364666}}</ref> The start-up CBC leased space in a [[Poverty Row]] studio on Hollywood's famously low-rent [[Gower Street (Los Angeles)|Gower Street]]. Among Hollywood's elite, the studio's small-time reputation led some to joke that "CBC" stood for "Corned Beef and Cabbage".<ref name="nytimes1999" />