Video: The Complete History of MGM's Roaring Lion Logo

Videos MGM Logo about 11 years agoby Ben Pearson

I don't know about you guys, but I'm fascinated by cool movie-related trivia. I like learning about the things that we all take for granted, and the stuff that we might not even really even think about. Case in point: the MGM logo. We've recently showcased a few videos that traced the visual history of the opening logos for Disney and DreamWorks, and now editor Ethan Jones is back with a new video that doesn't show all of the weird variations of the MGM logo, but instead shows how it came to become what it is today. This one takes us back in time to the early days of cinema history, and I found it very informative and interesting.

(As I finished writing this up, I stumbled across an awesome article at Mashable that goes into even more detail about the logo's history, including a story about how one of its lions survived a plane crash (!) that didn't make it into the video below. Check that out here.)