Animal Star. MGM began experiments with two-strip color short subjects in 1927 and animated cartoons in 1930. For these productions, three different lions were used. Footage of the first lion is widely inaccessible, although a few frames of the logo with this lion exist in the public domain. He is known to have appeared in the silent color films "Buffalo Bill's Last Fight" (1927) and "The Heart of General Robert E. Lee" (1928). The former gave him the nickname Bill while the latter of which is currently being restored by the Library of Congress.
Animal Star. MGM began experiments with two-strip color short subjects in 1927 and animated cartoons in 1930. For these productions, three different lions were used. Footage of the first lion is widely inaccessible, although a few frames of the logo with this lion exist in the public domain. He is known to have appeared in the silent color films "Buffalo Bill's Last Fight" (1927) and "The Heart of General Robert E. Lee" (1928). The former gave him the nickname Bill while the latter of which is currently being restored by the Library of Congress.
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