It's one of the most iconic images in cinema: a lion, framed by a golden circle of film stock, triumphantly roaring just before the opening credits roll. Now, after almost 100 years and more than ...

The reader asked: Was the Lion really strapped down to film this famous trademark clip? The leonine logo of the MGM film studio, originally designed for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in 1916 ...

You can watch it below. There have been eight different lions used since 1924, and each one was used in multiple iterations of the MGM logo. The very first lion didn’t roar, while some lions ...

he’s appeared in the MGM logo and roared at the beginning of (almost) every MGM movie. Of course, I’m talking about Leo the Lion. Originally Goldwyn’s logo, Leo took over as MGM’s onscreen ...

But the first MGM lion was actually named Slats, not Leo, and he didn’t roar once in the “bumper”–the technical term for the little clip that’s like a moving logo for each studio ...