Slats – lion from the original Goldwyn Pictures logo label(1917–1924), MGM later.

Sure we all associate lion, which opens the movies studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures. Everyone knows the roar, who heard, soon appear on the screen is the logo.

However, not everyone knows, that the first live lion in the MGM logo was a lion named slats born in Dublin Zoo 20 mark 1919 years. Slats appeared before all black-and-white films in years 1924-1928. The famous logo invented Howard Dietz. He decided to use the lion as the mascot of studies in a tribute to his alma mater Columbia University,, the athletics team called the Lions. The roar of the king of the animals has been added to the trademark later. And this time inspired by the university, zagrzewająca song specifically for battle, whose title was: “Roar, Lion, Roar”. Slats was trained by Volney Phider – had more than growl to roar during recording. At first films seen as slats instead of looking only to growl. This is the Dublin lion passed into history Holywood.

Slats zdechł w 1936 years, and its skin can be seen in McPherson Museum in the town of McPherson, Kansas.

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