MGM Cartoons: Difference between revisions

* The Tanner logo premiered on the ''Happy Harmonies'' cartoon "The Old Plantation", released on September 21, 1935 and made its final appearance on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "The Bowling Alley-Cat", released on July 18, 1942.

* 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.

===2nd Logo (August 22, 1942-August 3, 1946, 1947)===

like on the previous logo and the "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon" secondary end title doesn't appear. The background is red with a shadowy statue of a Continental soldier behind the titles.

* On the ''Barney Bear'' cartoon "Wild Honey", the end title is on a red background.

* On "The Boy and the Wolf", the end title is on a rainbow-like background.

** "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.

* 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.

'''FX/SFX:''' Tanner roaring.

* It premiered on "Blitz Wolf", released on August 22, 1942 and made its final appearance on "Northwest Hounded Police", released on August 3, 1946.

* 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.

===3rd Logo (August 31, 1946-May 17, 1952)===

* It's tacked on to films it didn't originally appear on, as well.

* It premiered on the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "Solid Serenade", released on August 31, 1946 and made its final appearance on "One Cab's Family", released on May 17, 1952.

* The John Sutherland variant was extremely rare.

===4th Logo (March 15, 1952, June 14, 1952-September 18, 1954)===

'''Availability:''' Rare.

* 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.

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

** Third variant (December 14, 1956-August 1, 1958): On a {{Font color|blue|blue}} background, we see 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".

'''Music/Sounds:''' The updated 1st logo fanfare, again.

'''Availability:''' Common, can easily be seen on various cartoons as well as plastering previous logos on older cartoons on TCM, Boomerang, and MeTV (as Cartoon Network no longer airs classic ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons as of January 2016).

* 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.

===6th Logo (1960-December 1, 1962, 1965)===

* 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.

'''FX/SFX:''' Just the lion again.

* 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.

===7th Logo (July 27, 1963-December 31, 1967)===

'''Nicknames:''' "Tom the Lion", "Tanner the Lion VI", "Chuck Jones Lion"

'''Closing Title:''' "the end" appears on black, fading to "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer TOM AND JERRY CARTOON" on black, with "Made in Hollywood, USA" below it. In non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, It would just read "A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER CARTOON" with "Made in Hollywood, USA" below it on the bottom right of the black screen. On ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons where "The End" is seen within the final shot, the "the end" part is skipped and goes straight to "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer TOM AND JERRY CARTOON".

*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.

'''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.

* The version that doesn't fade to Tom is featured on non-Tom and Jerry cartoons, such as "The Bear That Wasn't".

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