The 1967 MGM Vault fire was a major fire that erupted on Saturday, May 13, 1967 at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

's studio at Vault #7. An electrical fire burned the vault and destroyed hundreds of silent films, including A Blind Bargain

A Blind Bargain

A Blind Bargain is a silent horror film starring Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, released through Goldwyn Pictures. The movie was directed by Wallace Worsley and is based on Barry Pain's 1897 novel, The Octave of Claudius...

, The Big City

The Big City (1928 film)

The Big City is a 1928 crime film directed by Tod Browning. It is now a lost film. The last known print of the film had been sent to Australia in the late 1950s...

, The Divine Woman

The Divine Woman

The Divine Woman is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film. Only a single nine-minute reel is currently known to exist of this otherwise lost film...

and, more famously, London After Midnight

London After Midnight (film)

London After Midnight aka The Hypnotist is a silent mystery film with horror overtones produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, and Polly Moran and was directed by Tod Browning. It is also a lost film, quite...

. Early talkies such as the Technicolor scenes of The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...

, Chasing Rainbows

Chasing Rainbows

Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.- Film preservation :...

,The Rogue Song, or the uncut version of the Laurel and Hardy short Blotto

Blotto (1930 film)

Blotto is a comedy film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Production background:The film survives only in a censored 1937 re-release print which has had Pre-Code sequences removed and a new music track added.Although the original 1930 version is now...

and silent Our Gang shorts from from 1927-1929 and the early Three Stooges musical short Hello Pop!

Hello Pop!

Hello Pop! was the third of five short subjects starring Ted Healy and His Stooges released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A musical-comedy film, the short also featured the Albertina Rasch Dancers and Bonnie Bonnell. The film is now considered a lost film. The last known copy was at MGM's vault no.7...

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

Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...

and Tex Avery

Tex Avery

Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros...

shorts.