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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 .
Avery directed eleven more cartoons for MGM, many of them showing the heavy influence of the newly popular UPA studio and its simplified designs. In March 1953, MGM temporarily closed down the cartoon unit, thinking that the growing trend for 3D films would bring an end to the animated cartoon. [31]
Cellbound was the final released MGM cartoon to be directed by Avery. In the same year that the cartoon was released, he began his career in television at Cascade Studios, which Lah introduced him to, working on commercials for Raid and Kool-Aid (advertisements for the latter featured Bugs Bunny, who Cascade was unaware Avery had created).
MGM Animation/Visual Arts Fritz the Cat: April 12, 1972 [fr 2] Krantz Films Heavy Traffic: August 8, 1973 [fr 2] Steve Krantz Productions: The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat: June 26, 1974 [fr 2] The Lord of the Rings: November 15, 1978 [st 1] [fr 3] Bakshi Productions Fantasy Films The Water Babies: June 15, 1979 [fr 2] Ariadne Films The Secret ...
The film was directed by Frank Tashlin's former Warner Bros. Cartoons colleague Chuck Jones.It was the final animated short subject made by MGM and its subsidiary, MGM Animation/Visual Arts, and also the second-to-last animated project for MGM (The Phantom Tollbooth would be the last).
According to Hugh Harman's obituary in The New York Times [2] and Ben Mankiewicz, host of Cartoon Alley, the cartoon was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. [3] However, it is not listed in the official Nobel Prize nomination database. [4] Mankiewicz also claimed that the cartoon was the first about a serious subject by a major studio.
After 1955, all cartoons were filmed in CinemaScope until MGM closed its cartoon division in 1957. [43] In 1961, MGM resumed the release of new Tom and Jerry shorts, and production moved to Rembrandt Films in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) under the supervision of Gene Deitch, who had been hired away from Terrytoons.
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.