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The last MGM cartoon was released in 1967 as The Bear That Wasn't. Between 1935 and 1957, MGM ran an in-house cartoon studio which produced shorts featuring the characters Barney Bear , George and Junior , Screwy Squirrel , Red Hot Riding Hood & The Wolf , Droopy and best of all, Tom and Jerry .
Celebrity Pictures' Pat Powers had hired Iwerks away from Disney with the promise of giving Iwerks his own studio, and was able to secure a distribution deal with MGM for the Flip the Frog cartoons. The first Flip the Frog cartoon, Fiddlesticks , was released in January 1931, [ 9 ] and over two-dozen other Flip cartoons followed during the next ...
The Bear That Wasn't is a 1967 American animated short film directed by Chuck Jones and based on the children's book The Bear That Wasn't by Frank Tashlin. It is the final cartoon produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer via its MGM Animation/Visual Arts division.
As a result, MGM purchased the Sib Tower 12 studio and renamed it MGM Animation/Visual Arts in 1964. [4] This studio continued with Jones' Tom and Jerry shorts until 1967. In addition to the Tom and Jerry cartoons, Jones worked on the short, The Dot and the Line (1965), an abstract piece based upon a children's book by Norton Juster , which won ...
How much of MGM's back catalog Turner actually obtained was a point of conflict for a time; eventually, it was determined that Turner owned all of the pre-May 1986 MGM library, as well as the pre-1950 Warner Bros. catalog, [70] [71] [note 1] the Popeye cartoons released by Paramount (both the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and Popeye cartoons ...
October 31, 1967 The Comedians: October 1967 The Girl and the General: US distribution November 1, 1967 More than a Miracle: November 10, 1967 Jack of Diamonds: A Harris Associates production November 13, 1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers: December 6, 1967 Eye of the Devil: Made by MGM-British: December 27, 1967 The Last Challenge: 1967 Too ...
The Chuck Jones-directed Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1963 to 1967 begin with a cartoon variation of the MGM logo using Tanner instead of Leo. Tanner from the early Tom and Jerry cartoon intros from MGM roars at the beginning, and is then replaced by Tom, who yowls and hisses; the logo then transitions to the cartoon series' title sequence.
This list does not include films from United Artists before it merged with MGM (except for co-productions), or other studios that MGM acquired (such as Orion Pictures, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, and Cannon Films). MGM's pre-May 1986 library is currently owned by Warner Bros. through Turner Entertainment Co.