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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 .
This is a list of theatrical animated cartoon shorts distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which were not part of any other series such as Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Barney Bear, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, Spike and Tyke, Butch or Happy Harmonies. [1] All of these cartoons were produced in Technicolor.
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.
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 ...
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, [69] [70] [note 1] the Popeye cartoons released by Paramount (both the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and Popeye cartoons ...
MGM began experiments with two-strip color short subjects in 1927 and animated cartoons in 1930. For these productions, three different lions were used. Bill, a lost lion, appeared in the logo in only two films, due to being very rare, though a small number of frames existed, and is one of the three lions used for Technicolor test logos on ...
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.