How did Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios acquire its famous roaring lion logo, and what was the cultural significance of their early silent films?
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MGM roaring lion logo history Slats Tanner Jackie original Goldwyn Pictures silent films cultural significance MGM early silent cinema history Google ↗
- The Story of Hollywood's Most Famous Lion · smithsonianmag.com
- DidYouKnow? · college.columbia.edu
- Aslan and the great movie lions · latimes.com
- He Who Gets Slapped (1924) · tcm.com
- Oblique Casting and Early MGM (Chapter 2) · cambridge.org
- The Big Parade · silentfilm.org
- 10 great films of 1924 · bfi.org.uk
- The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912–1929 · lcweb2.loc.gov
- The silent era came to an abrupt end with the transition to sound in the late 1920s. The end was near when *The Jazz Singer* premiered on October 6, 1927. It is instructive to see how the largest studio, MGM, dealt with the transition. MGM’s silent feature *White Shadows in the South Seas*, filmed under extraordinary circumstances on location, was outfitted with the studio’s first musical soundtrack and released in the summer of 1928 as its first sound release. As *White Shadows* went into wide · memory.loc.gov
- The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912–1929 · loc.gov