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→6th Logo (1960-December 1, 1962, 1965)
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'''Nickname:''' "Leo the Lion", "Leo Cardboard" | '''Nickname:''' "Leo the Lion", "Leo Cardboard", "Gene Deitch Lion" | ||
'''Logo:''' The new MGM lion design that has been put into use on films around this time, only with "CARTOON" tacked on to the bottom in red. One can only see the effort they put into this logo. | '''Logo:''' The new MGM lion design that has been put into use on films around this time, only with "CARTOON" tacked on to the bottom in red. One can only see the effort they put into this logo. | ||
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'''Music/Sounds:''' The updated 1st logo fanfare, plus, with the lion roar, it had three roar tracks: the 1960 roar, another which sounded like a yawning roar, and on "Calypso Cat" a fierce-sounding roar. Both roars were made by Tod Dockstader. | '''Music/Sounds:''' The updated 1st logo fanfare, plus, with the lion roar, it had three roar tracks: the 1960 roar, another which sounded like a yawning roar, and on "Calypso Cat" a fierce-sounding roar. Both roars were made by Tod Dockstader. | ||
'''Availability:''' Rare. Seen | '''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. | ||
'''Editor's Note:''' Nothing special about the logo itself, as it's it's just the regular MGM logo used at the time with "A" at the top and "Cartoon" at the bottom, but major mood whiplash from the last logos, obviously due to change being in the wind for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons. The fact that this logo was mostly used on (and associated with) Gene Deitch's noticeably lower-budget Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons doesn't help things either, Due to the significantly lower quality, this logo is worse than the previous logos. | '''Editor's Note:''' Nothing special about the logo itself, as it's it's just the regular MGM logo used at the time with "A" at the top and "Cartoon" at the bottom, but major mood whiplash from the last logos, obviously due to change being in the wind for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons. The fact that this logo was mostly used on (and associated with) Gene Deitch's noticeably lower-budget Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoons doesn't help things either, Due to the significantly lower quality, this logo is worse than the previous logos. | ||