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* This logo (with Tanner) was used on the earliest ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, but the much more common reissue prints replace this with the 3rd, 4th, or 5th logos, or on a few occasions, the 6th logo. | * This logo (with Tanner) was used on the earliest ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, but the much more common reissue prints replace this with the 3rd, 4th, or 5th logos, or on a few occasions, the 6th logo. | ||
''' | '''Legacy:''' Nothing much here, as it's just the regular MGM logo. | ||
===2nd Logo (August 22, 1942-August 3, 1946, 1947)=== | ===2nd Logo (August 22, 1942-August 3, 1946, 1947)=== | ||
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* This logo was also used on many ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, but the much more common reissue prints use the 3rd, 4th, and 5th logos. | * This logo was also used on many ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons, but the much more common reissue prints use the 3rd, 4th, and 5th logos. | ||
''' | '''Legacy:''' Just like in the editor's note for the 6th MGM logo, those who grew up on ''Tom and Jerry'', consider Tanner a favorite. | ||
===3rd Logo (August 31, 1946-May 17, 1952)=== | ===3rd Logo (August 31, 1946-May 17, 1952)=== | ||
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* The John Sutherland variant was extremely rare. | * The John Sutherland variant was extremely rare. | ||
''' | '''Legacy:''' Same as the previous logo. | ||
===4th Logo (March 15, 1952, June 14, 1952-September 18, 1954)=== | ===4th Logo (March 15, 1952, June 14, 1952-September 18, 1954)=== | ||
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* 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. | * 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. | ||
''' | '''Legacy:''' Same as above. | ||
===5th Logo (1953-August 1, 1958)=== | ===5th Logo (1953-August 1, 1958)=== | ||
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* It premiered on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "Neapolitan Mouse", released on October 2, 1954 and, as told above, made its final appearance on the last ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera "Tot Watchers", released on August 1, 1958. | * It premiered on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "Neapolitan Mouse", released on October 2, 1954 and, as told above, made its final appearance on the last ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera "Tot Watchers", released on August 1, 1958. | ||
''' | '''Legacy:''' Same as above. | ||
===6th Logo (1960-December 1, 1962, 1965)=== | ===6th Logo (1960-December 1, 1962, 1965)=== | ||
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* Like with the 3rd logo, Sci-Fi Theater-edited airings of "Mouse Into Space" cut off the opening logo, but keep the ending logo. | * Like with the 3rd logo, Sci-Fi Theater-edited airings of "Mouse Into Space" cut off the opening logo, but keep the ending logo. | ||
''' | '''Legacy:''' Nothing special about the logo itself, as it's mostly just the regular MGM logo used at the time, but its association with the panned Gene Deitch era of ''Tom and Jerry'' makes it quite controversial. | ||
===7th Logo (July 27, 1963-December 31, 1967)=== | ===7th Logo (July 27, 1963-December 31, 1967)=== | ||
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* The version that doesn't fade to Tom is featured on non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, such as "The Bear That Wasn't". | * The version that doesn't fade to Tom is featured on non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, such as "The Bear That Wasn't". | ||
''' | '''Legacy:''' The animated part in the ''Tom and Jerry'' variant makes the logo something special. It is a generally well liked logo, and a quite creative one as well, but this logo also has a fairly bad reputation for appearing on one of the most deeply polarizing 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. | ||
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