Columbia Pictures is a major American film studio founded in 1924, best known for the logo of a draped woman holding a torch aloft against clouds. The orchestral fanfare paired with that animated logo became one of the most recognised studio openings in cinema, signalling the start of a feature film. Clips of the intro later spread online as a standalone sound, where creators reuse it to frame their own videos as official theatrical releases, often for comedy or to give amateur footage a polished, big screen feeling.