The MGM Lion!

Dman001 · 12-01-2011 2:03am #1

I found this while browsing and thought it was worth posting. Apparently this is a pic of the crew filming the infamous MGM Lion sequence in 1924.

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TeddyTedson · 12-01-2011 3:21am

That's very cool. Nice one.
Is it still the same footage they're showing in new movies?

paulosham · 12-01-2011 3:31am

There have been 5 lions used as the MGM mascot over the years.

Here's the Wiki link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Lion_(MGM)

bonerm · 12-01-2011 8:42am

paulosham wrote: »

There have been 5 lions used as the MGM mascot over the years.

Here's the Wiki link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Lion_(MGM)

Slats[2] was the first lion used for the newly-formed studio. He was born at Dublin Zoo, Ireland on March 20, 1919.[3] Slats was used on all black-and-white MGM films between 1924 and 1928

always a nice bit of trivia to have.

Quazzie · 12-01-2011 8:43am

I remember reading somewhere that the original lion was put down two days after the shoot for killing a man.

Don't know how true that is though.

mike65 · 12-01-2011 9:29am

I always prefered MTM to MGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvJ5hcUQdKc

Skerries · 12-01-2011 9:45am

afaik the original Irish lion was called Cairbre so i don't know where Slats came from

Jesus Wept · 12-01-2011 9:48am

Skerries wrote: »

afaik the original Irish lion was called Cairbre so i don't know where Slats came from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Lion_(MGM)

Slats[2] was the first lion used for the newly-formed studio. He was born at Dublin Zoo, Ireland on March 20, 1919.

humanji · 12-01-2011 10:00am

I would not like to be either of those guys recording the lion.

Duggy747 · 12-01-2011 10:19am

humanji wrote: »

I would not like to be either of those guys recording the lion.

Good ol' fashioned Health & Safety!

mike65 · 12-01-2011 10:51am

True, it would be a CGI lion now.

BigBenRoeth · 13-01-2011 4:26pm

Dman001 wrote: »

I found this while browsing and thought it was worth posting. Apparently this is a pic of the crew filming the infamous MGM Lion sequence in 1924.

That Lion/Sequence is not infamous at all

Skerries · 13-01-2011 6:28pm

The-Rigger wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Lion_(MGM)

yes but i remember as a kid that they had fun facts up in the advert section in the Darts before they got proper adverts and one of them was about Cairbre the MGM lion
If you do a search for MGM and Cairbre it throws back loads to corroborate my story

"Although MGM calls the lion 'Leo' his actual name was Cairbre. He was born at Dublin Zoo on 20th March, 1927. A second lion from Dublin Zoo was also filmed to replace Cairbre but the zoo has no knowledge as to whether this footage was ever used"

The MGM Lion!

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