Editing Columbia Pictures (section)

===Short subjects===
At Harry Cohn's insistence, the studio signed [[the Three Stooges]] in 1934. Rejected by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] (which kept straight-man [[Ted Healy]] but let the Stooges go),<ref>Okuda, Ted; Watz, Edward (1986). ''The Columbia Comedy Shorts''. p. 60. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|0-89950-181-8}}.</ref> the Stooges made 190 shorts for Columbia between 1934 and 1957. Columbia's short-subject department employed many famous comedians, including [[Buster Keaton]], [[Charley Chase]], [[Harry Langdon]], [[Andy Clyde]], and [[Hugh Herbert]]. Almost 400 of Columbia's 529 two-reel comedies were released to television between 1958 and 1961; to date, all of the Stooges, Keaton, [[Charley Chase]], [[Shemp Howard]], [[Joe Besser]], and [[Joe DeRita]] subjects have been released to home video.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://columbiashortsdept.weebly.com/historical-overview.html |title=A History of the Columbia Comedy Short|first= Greg|last= Hilbrich|website = The Columbia Shorts Department}}</ref>

Columbia incorporated animation into its studio in 1929, distributing [[Krazy Kat filmography|Krazy Kat]] cartoons, taking over from [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]. The following year, Columbia took over distribution of the [[Mickey Mouse (film series)|Mickey Mouse]] series from Celebrity Productions until 1932. In 1933, The Mintz studio was re-established under the [[Screen Gems#Animation studio (1921–49)|Screen Gems]] brand; Columbia's leading cartoon series were ''[[Krazy Kat]]'', ''[[Scrappy]]'', ''[[The Fox and the Crow (animated characters)|The Fox and the Crow]]'', and (very briefly) ''[[Li'l Abner]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-12-ca-45573-story.html|title=History of Gems|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 12, 1999|access-date=April 4, 2016}}</ref> Screen Gems was the last major cartoon studio to produce black-and-white cartoons, producing them until 1946. That same year, Screen Gems shut down but had completed enough cartoons for the studio to release until 1949. In 1948, Columbia agreed to release animated shorts from [[United Productions of America]]; these new shorts were more sophisticated than Columbia's older cartoons, and many won critical praise and industry awards. In 1957, two years before the UPA deal was terminated, Columbia distributed the [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoons, including [[Loopy De Loop]] from 1959 to 1965, which was Columbia's final theatrical cartoon series. In 1967, the Hanna-Barbera deal expired and was not renewed.

According to Bob Thomas' book ''King Cohn'', studio chief Harry Cohn always placed a high priority on serials. Beginning in 1937, Columbia entered the lucrative serial market and kept making these weekly episodic adventures until 1956, after other studios had discontinued them. The most famous Columbia serials are based on comic-strip or radio characters: ''[[Mandrake the Magician (serial)|Mandrake the Magician]]'' (1939), ''[[The Shadow (serial)|The Shadow]]'' (1940), ''[[Terry and the Pirates (serial)|Terry and the Pirates]]'' (1940), ''[[Captain Midnight (serial)|Captain Midnight]]'' (1942), ''[[The Phantom (serial)|The Phantom]]'' (1943), ''[[Batman (serial)|Batman]]'' (1943), and the especially successful ''[[Superman (serial)|Superman]]'' (1948), among many others.

Columbia also produced musical shorts, sports reels (usually narrated by sportscaster [[Bill Stern]]), and travelogues. Its "[[Screen Snapshots]]" series, showing behind-the-scenes footage of Hollywood stars, was a Columbia perennial that the studio had been releasing since the silent-movie days; producer-director [[Ralph Staub]] kept this series going through 1958.