Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon department

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer operated an in-house animation studio, simply named its cartoon department, during the Golden Age of American animation. Active from 1937 until 1957, the studio was responsible for producing animated shorts to accompany MGM's feature films in Loew's Theaters, which included popular cartoon characters and series such as Tex Avery's various cartoon characters and William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom and Jerry series. Prior to forming its own cartoon studio, MGM released the work of independent animation producer Ub Iwerks, and later the Happy Harmonies series from Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. The MGM cartoon studio was founded to replace Harman and Ising, although both men eventually became employees of the studio. After a slow start, the studio began to take off in 1940 after its short The Milky Way became the first non-Disney cartoon to win the Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons. The studio's roster of talent benefited from an exodus of animators from...

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