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*<nowiki>* "The Screwy Truant": Screwy Squirrel brings down a title card on a water blue background with the words "THE END" and says: "Well, that's that. Now that dumb officer never will know why I wasn't in school." Then the officer comes in and says: "Oh yeah? Come on, now! Why wasn't you in school?". Then Screwy replies "Because... I've got measles!" and kisses the officer, causing him to get the measles as well. Screwy laughs at him and we zoom up to the words "THE END", which also get the measles. This irises out and the regular "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" card fades in.</nowiki> | *<nowiki>* "The Screwy Truant": Screwy Squirrel brings down a title card on a water blue background with the words "THE END" and says: "Well, that's that. Now that dumb officer never will know why I wasn't in school." Then the officer comes in and says: "Oh yeah? Come on, now! Why wasn't you in school?". Then Screwy replies "Because... I've got measles!" and kisses the officer, causing him to get the measles as well. Screwy laughs at him and we zoom up to the words "THE END", which also get the measles. This irises out and the regular "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" card fades in.</nowiki> | ||
*The final theatrical George and Junior cartoon, Half-Pint Pygmy, has the duo holding up guns to their head. George pulls a blue "The End" background down and two gunshots are heard, shaking the card. | *The final theatrical George and Junior cartoon, Half-Pint Pygmy, has the duo holding up guns to their head. George pulls a blue "The End" background down and two gunshots are heard, shaking the card. | ||
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MADE IN HOLLYWOOD, U.S.A. | MADE IN HOLLYWOOD, U.S.A. | ||
*In the Tom and Jerry short "Smarty Cat", The end title has Jerry Mouse holding the camera and the word "THE END" zooms at us, Then it fades to the regular blue "A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer | *In the ''Tom and Jerry'' short "Smarty Cat", The end title has Jerry Mouse holding the camera and the word "THE END" zooms at us, Then it fades to the regular blue "A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer CARTOON Made in Hollywood, U.S.A." end card instead of the normal ''Tom & Jerry'' end title. The reason why this likely happened was possibly due to an editing mistake . | ||
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'''Tom and Jerry Closing Title:''' | '''Tom and Jerry Closing Title:''' | ||
* The Academy version of the closing title is essentially the same as the previous versions, but this time the "An MGM" credit has been redrawn with thicker borders, and is noticeably smaller to accommodate flat widescreen ratios. Starting in 1956 (reissues only since the new CinemaScope cartoons were already using different closing titles), the The End text has been slightly redrawn again with even thicker borders to match the secondary closing titles. Also, "MADE IN HOLLYWOOD, U.S.A." is now in a different font. | * The Academy version of the closing title is essentially the same as the previous versions, but this time the "An MGM" credit has been redrawn with thicker borders, and is noticeably smaller to accommodate flat widescreen ratios. Starting in 1956 (reissues only since the new CinemaScope cartoons were already using different closing titles), the "The End" text has been slightly redrawn again with even thicker borders to match the secondary closing titles. Also, "MADE IN HOLLYWOOD, U.S.A." is now in a different font. | ||
* For the CinemaScope cartoons, there are three variants: | * For the CinemaScope cartoons, there are three variants: | ||
** First variant (November 20, 1954-November 19, 1955): Similar to the original title, but it's in widescreen and the background is orange. It was used on shorts from "Pet Peeve" to "That's My Mommy". | ** First variant (November 20, 1954-November 19, 1955): Similar to the original title, but it's in widescreen and the background is orange. It was used on shorts from "Pet Peeve" to "That's My Mommy". | ||
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*On "Switchin' Kitten" and "Down and Outing", the then-current MGM movie logo would play (without "CARTOON" at the bottom, and without the theme song accompanying it) followed by a screen saying "A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER CARTOON", whose font and background vary depending on the cartoon. The theme song would start whenever this screen came up. While the standard movie logo also appeared on "Buddies Thicker Than Water" and "Carmen Get It!", the second screen was not shown and the opening music played over it. | *On "Switchin' Kitten" and "Down and Outing", the then-current MGM movie logo would play (without "CARTOON" at the bottom, and without the theme song accompanying it) followed by a screen saying "A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER CARTOON", whose font and background vary depending on the cartoon. The theme song would start whenever this screen came up. While the standard movie logo also appeared on "Buddies Thicker Than Water" and "Carmen Get It!", the second screen was not shown and the opening music played over it. | ||
*On the Academy Award-winning short "The Dot and the Line", the movie logo is used instead and is accompanied by a majestic horn fanfare composed and conducted by Eugene Poddany. | *On the Academy Award-winning short "The Dot and the Line", the movie logo is used instead and is accompanied by a majestic horn fanfare composed and conducted by Eugene Poddany. | ||
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'''Variants:''' | '''Variants:''' | ||
*Tom and Jerry Variant: After showing Tanner roaring, it later fades out to reveal none other than Tom in the circle, who meow-roars (which is the only way we can describe it), and hisses. Then, the ribboning fades into a simple blue circle and moves upwards as the black background changes to orange, Tom "roaring" all the while. "T" and "M" appear besides it, and "and" appears below. "JERRY" appears letter-by-letter below all that as Jerry drops into the "Y," smiling pleasantly, and waves his hand. Tom notices this and hisses. | *''Tom and Jerry'' Variant: After showing Tanner roaring, it later fades out to reveal none other than Tom in the circle, who meow-roars (which is the only way we can describe it), and hisses. Then, the ribboning fades into a simple blue circle and moves upwards as the black background changes to orange, Tom "roaring" all the while. "T" and "M" appear besides it, and "and" appears below. "JERRY" appears letter-by-letter below all that as Jerry drops into the "Y," smiling pleasantly, and waves his hand. Tom notices this and hisses. | ||
*Closing Title Variant: On 1963's Pent-House Mouse (Chuck Jones's first T&J short), "The End" is in a completely different font. It also cuts to the "MGM Tom and Jerry Cartoon" screen instead of fading. | *Closing Title Variant: On 1963's Pent-House Mouse (Chuck Jones's first T&J short), "The End" is in a completely different font. It also cuts to the "MGM Tom and Jerry Cartoon" screen instead of fading. | ||
'''FX/SFX:''' Nice animation sequence from the Chuck Jones-led animation unit. | '''FX/SFX:''' Nice animation sequence from the Chuck Jones-led animation unit. | ||
'''Music/Sounds:''' The updated 1st logo fanfare leading into the trademark Tom and Jerry music with the 1960 roaring soundtrack. For non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, A different fanfare is used. | '''Music/Sounds:''' The updated 1st logo fanfare leading into the trademark ''Tom and Jerry'' music with the 1960 roaring soundtrack. For non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, A different fanfare is used. | ||
'''Availability:''' Rare. Seen on the Chuck Jones-produced Tom and Jerry cartoons, which are still rerun on Boomerang on a semi-regular basis and on MeTV as part of its Toon In with Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons blocks, and all are available on DVD. The version that doesn't fade to Tom is featured on non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, such as The Bear That Wasn't. | '''Availability:''' Rare. Seen on the Chuck Jones-produced Tom and Jerry cartoons, which are still rerun on Boomerang on a semi-regular basis and on MeTV as part of its Toon In with Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons blocks, and all are available on DVD. The version that doesn't fade to Tom is featured on non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, such as "The Bear That Wasn't". | ||
'''Editor's Note:''' The animated part in the Tom and Jerry variant makes the logo something special. It is one of the most well liked logos, and one of the most creative as well, but this logo also has a fairly bad reputation for appearing on one of the least popular eras of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons, when production moved back in-house at Chuck Jones Studios with a mostly-new crew and substantially smaller budgets, not to mention featuring very few of the popular classic characters, and mostly focusing on more newer, less-memorable characters. Overall, it carries many of the same problems from the previous logo, and it does not provide a fitting end to the Golden Age era of MGM Cartoons. | '''Editor's Note:''' The animated part in the Tom and Jerry variant makes the logo something special. It is one of the most well liked logos, and one of the most creative as well, but this logo also has a fairly bad reputation for appearing on one of the least popular eras of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons, when production moved back in-house at Chuck Jones Studios with a mostly-new crew and substantially smaller budgets, not to mention featuring very few of the popular classic characters, and mostly focusing on more newer, less-memorable characters. Overall, it carries many of the same problems from the previous logo, and it does not provide a fitting end to the Golden Age era of MGM Cartoons. | ||