"lion finally roars off-screen (using the 1982 roar used for Leo) around thirty seconds later, to which Bob remarks, ""Geez, now that hoser's growling."" In the teaser trailer for Australian comedy adventure movie starring Steve Irwin """", the lion is shown in the MGM logo roaring (using the same roars as Leo) before Steve appears on screen and introduces himself. Steve stands beside the logo, discusses various facts, including his upcoming film. Steve eventually realizes there’s one big problem, which is the lion, believing the animal is too tame, much to the lion’s dismay. Steve orders the lion to get"
"MGM in 1943, as ""Lassie Come Home"" with a dog named Pal playing Lassie. Pal then appeared with the stage name ""Lassie"" in six other MGM feature films through 1951. Pal's owner and trainer Rudd Weatherwax then acquired the Lassie name and trademark from MGM and appeared with Pal (as ""Lassie"") at rodeos, fairs, and similar events across America in the early 1950s. In 1954, the long-running, Emmy winning television series ""Lassie"" debuted, and, over the next 19 years, a succession of Pal's descendants appeared on the series. The ""Lassie"" character has appeared in radio, television, film, toys, comic books,"
"the time shooting began—making it the costliest film ever produced up to that time. When adjusted for inflation, the budget of ""Ben Hur"" was approximately $ in constant dollars. One notable change in the film involved the opening titles. Concerned that a roaring Leo the Lion (the MGM mascot) would create the wrong mood for the sensitive and sacred nativity scene, Wyler received permission to replace the traditional logo with one in which Leo the Lion is quiet. It was the first time in MGM history that the lion logo was not seen roaring. Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, """", ran"
"however, MGM's first released movie, as the film was held until the Christmas season when higher attendance was expected. The movie was highly profitable for the fledgling MGM, and was critically hailed upon release. It was also the first film to feature Leo the Lion as the mascot for MGM. Previously, Leo appeared in the logo for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in 1916, and the trademark was retained by MGM when the companies merged. The film was important in the careers of Chaney, Shearer, Gilbert, and Sjöström. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film"
"viewer. In addition, several MGM films made in the late 1930s and early '40s set their entire opening credits against a background of a relief carving of an outline of the reclining lion image, similar to the one seen on the secondary logo. Among the many films that include this kind of credits sequence are the 1938 version of ""A Christmas Carol"", based on the Charles Dickens novel, and ""Ninotchka"" from 1939, starring Greta Garbo. This reclining lion image was later used as the logo for MGM Television in the late 1950s. Leo the Lion (MGM) Leo the Lion is"
"1927). Slats died in 1936 and was buried in Gillette, New Jersey. Jackie, born in 1915, trained by Mel Koontz, was the second lion used for the MGM logo. He was a wild lion brought from the Nubian part of Sudan, and the first MGM lion to roar (recorded long after he was filmed; at least three different recordings of roars/growls were used), which was first heard via a gramophone record for MGM's first production with sound, ""White Shadows in the South Seas"" (1928). Jackie roared/growled three times before looking off to the right of the screen (the lion's left);"
"1924. Five different lions have played Leo the Lion, the lion seen at the start of every MGM film. The lion's role as ""king of the beasts"" has been utilized in cartoons, from the Leonardo Lion of ""King Leonardo and His Short Subjects"" (1960-1963) series to the Disney animated feature film ""The Lion King"" (1994) The lion is a popular mascot or symbol, for businesses, government entities, sports, and other uses; for example: Cultural depictions of lions Cultural depictions of lions are known in European, African and Asian countries. The lion has been an important symbol to humans for tens"
"his own film industry zoo after the closure of Universal Zoo in the mid-1920s. He established Goebel's Lion Farm in 1926, situated where Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza is located today. Goebel began with five lions and seven malamute dogs, but he soon acquired new animals such as giraffes, camels, hippos, monkeys, tigers, gorillas, seals and other exotic animals. It became home to several animals used for Leo the Lion MGM logo. There were held public animal shows, which drew thousands of spectators from throughout California. The animals from the park have been used in a many movies and TV"
"play on MGM's famous trademark, Leo the Lion. During the 1960s and early 1970s, MGM was said to have lost its luster and hold as a Hollywood stronghold. The phrase ""the lion has lost his roar"" became a popular saying for the MGM name. This film was to document MGM's comeback after Kirk Kerkorian bought the company, downsized severely, sold off assets, and otherwise attempted to revive the company. The Lion Roars Again The Lion Roars Again is a 1975 American short documentary film that documents an event that was hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The event was the International Press Conclave"
"tropical island, including a faux hut roof, and a switch that can create artificial rain. The Grizzly room is decorated like a Wild West or Alaskan saloon. The Halls kept several pets on the property, including two German shepherds, a monkey and several birds. But their most famous pets were three lions, all named Leo. Jackie, the lion that roars at the beginning of MGM movies, is related to one of the Leos. One of the lions as well as 20 dogs are buried in the pet cemetery near the gardens. All of Brucemore's residents used their wealth and standing"
"side, Jeff surreptitiously listens-in on party-line telephone conversations at home, much to the annoyance of his mother. Jeff attends a one-room schoolhouse and has his own horse, Domino. In 1943, Eric Knight's fictional rough collie, Lassie, made her film debut in MGM's ""Lassie Come Home."" Canine star Pal, a male dog, appeared in the titular role. The success of the film generated six more MGM Lassie films, and, with the seventh feature, ""The Painted Hills"" (1951), Lassie's MGM career came to an end. Pal's owner and trainer, Rudd Weatherwax, took all rights to the Lassie name and trademark in lieu"
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM; common metonym: the Lion or Leo) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. One of the world's oldest film studios, MGM's headquarters are located at 245 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, a plan which never came into fruition. Over the next 39 years, the"
"also cited as a cultural icon in Jane and Michael Stern's 1992 book, ""Encyclopedia of Pop Culture"". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Lassie Come Home Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie. The film was directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a screenplay by Hugo Butler based upon the 1940 novel ""Lassie Come-Home"" by Eric Knight. The film was the first in a series of seven MGM"
"people such as Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and Masai, clips of New York City and other locations such as the Amazon Rainforest, Serengeti, Andes, Las Vegas, Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia, and images of animals such as monkeys, bald eagles, snakes, elephants and wildebeest). The film opens with Mufasa's voice explaining that everyone is connected in the great circle of life. A montage of animals and a few clips from ""Symbiosis"" open to the song, Circle of Life. The focus of the main story is on Simba. He decided to show Timon and Pumbaa how another creature (man) is similarly forgetting"
"the official New York Mets’ team mascot in the 1960s, a beagle named Homer. Weatherwax was born in Engle, New Mexico Territory, the son of Anna Elisa (née Wallis) and Walter Smiley Weatherwax. Pal became a movie star through a weather-related event. MGM, which had decided to use a show collie trained by Frank Inn in the movie, took advantage of a massive flooding of the Sacramento River in northern California to obtain some spectacular footage for the film. Their fancy collie was still in training, so MGM hired Pal as a stand-in for the river scene. Although the work"
"had worked on back then, albeit the Warners' series gained more popularity than Avery's MGM cartoons. Avery's best known MGM character debuted in ""Dumb-Hounded"" (1943). Droopy (originally ""Happy Hound"") was a small, calm, slow-moving and slow-talking dog who always won out in the end, whatever difficulties he was presented with. He also created a series of risqué cartoons, beginning with ""Red Hot Riding Hood"" (also 1943), featuring a sexy female star who never had a set name but has been unofficially referred to as ""Red"" by fans. Her visual design and voice varied somewhat between shorts. Other Avery characters at"
"acquisitions of many different companies and film and television libraries, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has greatly enhanced its film and television holdings. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's library includes its own post-April 1986 library as well as the film and television libraries of: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM; common metonym: the Lion or Leo) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs. One of the world's oldest film studios, MGM's headquarters are located at 245 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control"
"February 1958, reaching $15.175 million by the time shooting began—making it the costliest film ever produced up to that time. When adjusted for inflation, the budget of ""Ben Hur"" was approximately $ in constant dollars. One notable change in the film involved the opening titles. Concerned that a roaring Leo the Lion (the MGM mascot) would create the wrong mood for the sensitive and sacred nativity scene, Wyler received permission to replace the traditional logo with one in which Leo the Lion is quiet. Lew Wallace's 1880 novel, """", ran to about 550 pages. Zimbalist hired a number of screenwriters"
"go wrong. The circus can't pay them their wages so Oliver is given a gorilla called Ethel and Stanley a Flea Circus as a pay off. Despite the film's title Ethel isn't a chimpanzee. She is dressed in a ballet tutu and hat. Stanley and Oliver need to find a room to stay in overnight and they go to a guest house. The landlord gives them a room but refuses to let Ethel stay. A lion named MGM after the MGM lion has escaped from the circus. Stanley and Oliver try to smuggle Ethel into their room whilst avoiding MGM."
"the blue dog whose brain was switched with the cat and a cuckoo clock's mooing bird. He then encounters Jerry, and begs and pleads for him to squeak, but the mouse roars like Leo the Lion and even has a gold-ribboned mouse hole (with the phrase of Ars Gratia Artis as part on the MGM logo). Terrified, he blasts off like a rocket out of the castle and runs off. The clouds separate revealing Jerry's winks to the camera and audience, as the cartoon closes with the same opening template, with the only difference that Tom's face is depressed and"
"""Oh, he isn't my dog,"" Trimble replied. He told Smith that the little dog was a stray, suggested that he take him home as a pet, and said, ""Tomorrow I'll bring you the right dog for the picture."" The next morning Trimble arrived with his dog, a tri-color Scotch Collie named Jean. ""Jean, the Vitagraph Dog"" became the first canine to have a leading role in motion pictures. Trimble began his film career at Vitagraph in the spring of 1910. He became one of the studio's leading directors, responsible for all of Jean's films and most of those made by"
"Dietz stated that he decided to use a lion as the company's mascot as a tribute to his alma mater Columbia University, whose athletic teams' nickname is The Lions; he further added that Columbia's fight song, ""Roar, Lion, Roar"", inspired him to make the lion roar. Unlike their successors, the Goldwyn Pictures lion and Slats did nothing but look around in the logo, making them the only MGM lions not to roar (although it is rumored that Volney Phifer trained Slats to growl on cue, despite the fact that synchronized sound would not officially be used in motion pictures until"
"movies and television shows also featuring MGM's other famous cartoon stars, Tom and Jerry. In the cartoon ""Northwest Hounded Police"", Droopy's last name was given as ""McPoodle"". In ""The Chump Champ"", it was given as ""Poodle"". Nevertheless, Droopy is generally understood to be a basset hound. Droopy first appeared in the MGM cartoon ""Dumb-Hounded"", released by MGM on March 20, 1943. Droopy's first scene is when he saunters into view, looks at the audience, and declares, ""Hello, all you happy people ... you know what? I'm the hero."" In the cartoon, Droopy is tracking an escaped convict and is always"
"Grove"" and several early James A. Fitzpatrick ""Traveltalks"" color shorts, with two additional roars from the lion. Tanner, whose first appearance was before the short subject ""Star Night at the Coconut Grove"" (1934) (his first feature film appearance was before ""Sweethearts"" four years later, in 1938), was MGM's third longest-lived lion to be used (for a total of 22 years), after Jackie (who was used for a total of 28 years) and the current lion (who has been retained for years). It is this version of the logo that was the most frequently used version throughout the Golden Age of"
"is credited for the Hoctor Ballet. In the advertising for the film, MGM boasted of the film's ostentatious nature, bragging that it was ""SO BIG that only MGM could handle it"", with its ""countless beauties, trained lions, ponies, dogs and other animals"". Busby Berkeley, who had led Warner Brothers to become the leading producer of musicals in Hollywood in the 1930s, was a major influence on the producers which had ""glamorous, excessive 1930s cinematic musical numbers"". The film also came at a time when producers had begun seeing the economic and cultural importance of the cinematic medium in comparison to"
"toward the Houston Astrodome and Astrohall, with the emerging Texas Medical Center in the background. It was the first film shot inside the Astrodome. The film opens with the MGM logo, as usual, but with a voice-over saying, ""I forgot the opening line,"" (the voice of James Stewart) replacing the lion roar, and proceeds with The Lecturer regaling his unseen students with a wealth of knowledge of the habits of birds. Owlish Brewster McCloud, living hidden and alone under the Houston Astrodome, dreams of creating wings that will help him fly like a bird. His only assistance comes from Louise,"
"prior to the park's debut. In 1988, MGM/UA responded by filing a lawsuit that claimed Disney violated the agreement by operating a working movie and television studio at the resort. On May 1, 1989, the theme park opened adjacent to the production facilities, with MGM's only affiliation being the original licensing agreement that allowed Disney to use MGM's name and lion logo in marketing, and separate contracts that allowed specific MGM content to be used in The Great Movie Ride. On opening day, the only two operating attractions were the Studio Backlot Tour and The Great Movie Ride. Disney later"
"territory. The roar of a lion is audible for a long distance: up to five miles in human hearing and probably further for lions. The lion's roar is familiar to many through Leo the Lion, the iconic logo seen during the opening sequence of MGM films. (Leo's current roar, recreated by Mark Mangini in 1981, consists of tiger vocalizations; as Mangini later stated, ""[L]ions don't make that kind of ferocious noises [sic], and the logo needed to be ferocious and majestic.) Roar (vocalization) A roar is a type of animal vocalization consisting of both a low fundamental frequency (pitch) and"
"based on Mills' early life. Working with Cosmo inspired actor Ewan McGregor to get a dog of his own. ""I was looking for a replacement for Cosmo because I couldn’t stand the idea of not having him around,"" said McGregor, who adopted a poodle mix called Sid. ""I found my dog on the last day of the shoot. He is gorgeous and my little Cosmo replacement."" McGregor stated that he takes Sid for walks with DeCagny and Cosmo in Venice on occasion. Cosmo (dog) Cosmo is a canine actor. He is a Jack Russell Terrier that is best known for"
"the Lion was used in a MGM logo. Despite being credited as a producer, Tashlin had no involvement in the short. Chuck Jones credited him as a producer, so if the film won the Oscar for Best Short, Tashlin would receive an Oscar (in those days, Oscars for Best Short were given to producers, not the director). Frank Tashlin was dissatisfied with this film adaptation of his own book, feeling that the film did not present its original message very well. A bear settles down for his hibernation, and while he sleeps the progress of man continues. He wakes up"
"picture."" The next morning he arrived with his dog, a tri-color Scotch Collie named Jean. ""Jean, the Vitagraph Dog"" became the first canine to have a leading role in motion pictures. ""Jean was equal in popularity to Vitagraph's human stars, Florence Turner and Maurice Costello,"" wrote film historian Anthony Slide. Jean was soon starring in her own films, all directed by Trimble. One-reelers and two-reelers with titles such as ""Jean and the Calico Doll"", ""Jean and the Waif"" and ""Jean Goes Fishing"" were made by Trimble as their troupe filmed along the coastline in his native Maine. Trimble became a"
"MGM in 1938 and 1939. A colorized variation of the logo can be found on the colorized version of ""Babes in Toyland"" (1934), also known as ""March of the Wooden Soldiers""; an animated version (done via rotoscope) appeared on the 1939 ""Captain and the Kids"" cartoon ""Petunia Natural Park"". Jackie died on February 1935 and his pelt is currently on display in the McPherson Museum in McPherson, Kansas. He would later make a comeback at the beginning of the film ""Hearts of the West"" (1975). In the early 30s, MGM reissued some of its earlier, pre-1928 silent films with prerecorded"
"Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable characters. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short ""Plane Crazy"", debuting publicly in the short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over"