MGM Children's Matinees were a series of vintage MGM family films that were re-released to theatres between 1970 and 1971. As the name implies, they were shown only as Saturday matinees, usually just before the showing of the main feature which happened to be playing at the theatre at that time. The films ranged from old favorites such as The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Lassie Come Home (1943), to later widescreen films such as the 1960 Technicolor remake of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to then-recent fare such as Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion. [1]
The series was discontinued after 1971.