1967 MGM Vault fire

The 1967 MGM Vault fire was a major fire that erupted on Saturday, May 13, 1967 at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's studio at Vault #7. An electrical fire burned the vault and destroyed hundreds of silent films, including A Blind Bargain, The Big City, The Divine Woman and, more famously, London After Midnight.[1] Early talkies such as the Technicolor scenes of The Broadway Melody, Chasing Rainbows,The Rogue Song, or the uncut version of the Laurel and Hardy short Blotto and silent Our Gang shorts from 1927-1929 and the early Three Stooges musical short Hello Pop! were also destroyed at the fire, as with the original negatives for cartoons and short subjects produced by the studio during the 1930s and 1940s, including the unedited versions of the pre-1951 Tom and Jerry and Tex Avery shorts.

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