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3 unusual facts about MGM Animation


MGM Animation/Visual Arts

The first was a 1966 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which has become a mainstay of the holiday season.

It is noted for productions such as the last series of Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts, the TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and the feature film The Phantom Tollbooth, all released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The first, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965), was an abstract piece based upon a children's book by Norton Juster.


Horton Hears a Who!

Horton Hears a Who! was adapted into a half-hour animated TV special by MGM Animation/Visual Arts in 1970, directed by Chuck Jones (who also directed the television version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas), produced by Theodor Geisel, and with narration by Hans Conried, who also voiced Horton.

Jymn Magon

He also wrote three of the episodes for Sitting Ducks: "Feather Island/King of the Bongos", "Holding Pen 13/Daredevill Ducks" and "Iced Duck/Duck Footed. While working at MGM Animation he worked as writer on "MGM Sing Along Videos", "The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue" and "Tom Sawyer".


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