MGM Cartoons: Difference between revisions

* During WWII, the "{{font|Monotype Corsiva|The End}}" words were moved to the top of the screen and the pseudo logo was moved to the bottom, to give space for the following advertisement:<center> "AMERICA NEEDS YOUR MONEY<br> BUY DEFENSE BONDS AND STAMPS<br> EVERY PAY DAY" </center>

* On the ''Barney Bear'' cartoon "The Bear and the Beavers", the end title is in the form of a page. Then the WWII disclaimer fades onto the screen.

'''Audio:''' Originally, this logo did not have music at first, just the soundbite of Coffee, Telly or Tanner's roar. Starting with the 1939 cartoon "The Little Goldfish", Tanner's roar is accompanied by a fanfare (a la the Alfred Newman-composed 20th Century Fox Fanfare) composed by Scott Bradley, MGM's principal cartoon conductor. This music would be modified as the years went on.

** "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 the screen zooms 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.

'''Audio:''' A modified version of the first logo's fanfare.

*On "Little 'Tinker", the end title is on a {{color|red}} background.

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'''Tom and Jerry Closing Title:''' Same as the previous logo. Starting in 1953, the "The End" text has a thicker border.

'''Availability:'''  It premiered on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "The Two Mouseketeers", released on March 15, 1952 (although the next three cartoons released, "Smitten Kitten", "Triplet Trouble" and "One Cab's Family" still used the previous logo, so that the logo officially premiered on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "Little Runaway", released on June 14, 1952) and made its final appearance on "The Farm of Tomorrow", released on September 18, 1954. Because of the cartoons' release schedules being either posptoned or changed, around 1953, this logo would be used in tandem with the early variation of the next logo below (until the latter started being used entirely).

===5th Logo (September 5, 1953-August 1, 1958)===

**Third variant (December 14, 1956-August 1, 1958): On a {{color|blue}} background, there is a pink square on the upper-left corner, an orange rectangle in the middle of the screen and a green square on the bottom-right corner. In the pink square is the word "an", on the orange rectangle are the words "M.G.M CARTOON", and on the green square are the words "made in Hollywood, U.S.A.". It was first used on "Barbecue Brawl" and its last appearance was on "Tot Watchers".

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*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.

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