Columbia, The Gem of The Ocean - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The song is featured in the film Amistad (1997).
• The song is sung at the 4th of July celebration in the film The Music Man (1962).
• The song is rehearsed by schoolchildren of 1881 in "No Time Like the Past," an episode of The Twilight Zone.
• The first line is sung a capella by Bruno Kirby in the film Donnie Brasco (1997).
• An instrumental version of the song frequently marks Popeye's consumption of spinach.
• The song was played by the "Columbia, New Hampshire, High School marching band" in The West Wing's third series episode where President Josiah Bartlet is preparing to announce his bid for reelection. It was also being played in the background just before President Bartlet was sworn in for his second term.
• The song can be heard in the title screen of Epyx's computer game Destroyer.
• The song is the last song heard in the 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon, The Weakly Reporter, used for a scene depicting a ship launch by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.
• The last sentence of the song is played as the background music in the cartoon Daffy – The Commando, while Daffy Duck was being shot by Von Vulture as a "human cannonball", flying to Berlin and hitting Adolf Hitler in the head with a mallet .