MGM Cartoons: Difference between revisions

*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 (surrounded by a red border) and is accompanied by a majestic horn fanfare composed and conducted by Eugene Poddany.

'''Availability:''' Rare. Seen on ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons (and others) produced by Gene Deitch and William Snyder in the former Czechoslovakia, 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 (all of them have also been released on DVD.) Was also seen on current prints of "Rock-a-Bye Bear" on Boomerang, old television prints of some ''Tom and Jerry'' shorts (such as "Puss n' Toots" (appears on the Spotlight Collection DVD with that short), "The Bowling Alley-Cat", "Sufferin' Cats!", "The Lonesome Mouse", "The Zoot Cat", "Quiet Please!", "The Invisible Mouse" and "Saturday Evening Puss") and the Boomerang Germany print of the ''Barney Bear'' cartoon "Half-Pint Palomino". Like with the 3rd logo, Sci-Fi Theater-edited airings of "Mouse Into Space" cut off the opening logo, but keep the ending logo.