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Nicknames: "Jackie the Lion", "The 1st Roaring Lion", "The 2nd MGM Lion", "The Ribbon and Mask II", "Ars Gratia Artis II" Logo: A new MGM lion named "Jackie" appears in a slightly re-done film-like ribboning logo. Jackie roars three times and then looks at his trainer. The marquee "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" is seen below, the Latin phrase is inscribed on the circle, and the words "TRADE" on the left and "MARK" on the right outside of the circle. Trivia: Jackie died on February 26, 1952. He was nicknamed "Leo the Lucky" because he survived several accidents, including two train wrecks, an earthquake, and an explosion inside the studio. Variants: Up until 1932, there was also an extended version where Jackie roared three times, then he looks away, then turns back to the camera and then fades out. This logo would also appear in sepia tone. 1949: Silver Anniversary. There is a fancy napkin which reads "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Silver Anniversary Picture". Jackie proceeds this. Seen on Scene of the Crime, The Doctor and the Girl, and Adam's Rib. In later colorized versions of the logo the ribboning is in a brownish-gold color, the reef is green, and the mask is red. Also, the NRA (National Recovery Administration, a New Deal agency that existed between 1933 and 1935) logo appears on the left side, below the marquee. There's another color variant, like the previous mentioned logo, but with the marquee in red. There is a variant where there is copyright information around the logo. This was seen on the Our Gang shorts "Teacher's Pet", "School's Out", and "Love Business", as well as the Laurel & Hardy short "Another Fine Mess". This has appeared superimposed over scenes on trailers of 1930s films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty, Fury, and San Francisco. In the 1993 MGM/UA Home Video logo, this logo was edited to make Jackie roar once instead of three times for the CGI filmstrip animation. Closing Variant: After the MGM merger, a variant of the Metro-Goldwyn Pictures closing logo, with the appropriate addendum, was used on the studio's end cards from 1924-1950s. FX/SFX: Jackie roaring and turning his head. Music/Sounds: Jackie roaring. The roar always varied. From 1929-1930, Jackie's actual roar was used. From 1931-1932, a panther's roar was used. From 1932-1953, another roar was used, which would also be used for the 4th logo. For silent films, it's the music's intro only without Jackie roaring. Music/Sounds Variants: Some early sound movies made in 1929-1930, like The Broadway Melody, Hallelujah, Marianne, Untamed, It's a Great Life, Devil-May-Care, Not So Dumb, Lord Byron of Broadway, The Big House, Call of the Flesh and Min and Bill, have this logo without the roar, even though the movies themselves have sound. In the early variants of the logo, at least three different roar variations were used, some more often than the others. In 1932, a new roar track that used the roar from the 4th logo. Used from this point on until 1956. In the 1930s, a light fanfare composed by LeRoy Shield played under Jackie's roaring, chiefly at the beginning of the Hal Roach Studios output. In the 1940s, there was a more majestic fanfare composed by Franz Waxman heard with Jackie roaring on some films (such as A Day at the Races and The Philadelphia Story). None for the mid to later years, as some had the intro music from any film playing with Jackie roaring. The Super 8mm version of The Wizard of Oz used Leo the Lion's roar from the 1970s. In the 1993 MGM/UA logo, Jackie roars with Tanner's roar instead of his own roaring sound. Availability: Common. Seen on films of the era such as The Wizard of Oz, and 1930s cartoons on The Captain and the Kids. The color variant was quite rare, as colorized versions are hardly ever revived on TV or video; it is seen on the colorized version of Babes in Toyland (1934). This logo may plaster Slats on current prints of old films. On later years of the century, the clips of this logo were recycled and applied as filmstrip images for the CGI filmstrip animation on the 1993-1998 MGM/UA Home Video logo. Scare Factor: Low bordering on medium. The mask on the bottom has freaked a few out as well. Although with the music playing while the lion is roaring could tame the scare factor a little.
