U.M. & M. TV Corporation

& M. TV Corporation was an American media company best known as the original purchaser of the pre-October 1950 short films and cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures, excluding Popeye and Superman.

Matty Fox, head of Motion Pictures for Television, signed a ten-year agreement with U.M.

& M. handled the physical distribution of the television series Paris Precinct and Sherlock Holmes, and others.

& M. got most of the pre-October 1950 material that Paramount put up for sale except for the Popeye cartoons (including the Betty Boop cartoon Popeye the Sailor), which were sold to Associated Artists Productions and are now owned by Warner Bros. through Turner Entertainment Co., and the Superman cartoons, due to their rights reverting from Paramount to National Periodical Publications (now DC Comics) after the studio's film rights to the character expired.

A total of 513 animated productions (shorts and features) from Fleischer, Famous, and George Pal were included in the package.

& M. started preserving the original credits, but continued to remove references to Paramount, Technicolor, Cinecolor, and Polacolor since the television prints were done in either Eastmancolor or Deluxe.

& M. began marketing the Paramount shorts and cartoons, at the expense of the live-action made-for-television products it was already syndicating.

The marketing included a Miss Cartoon girl[4] at their sales table at the NARTB convention in Chicago.

The shorts were syndicated under NTA's Panorama of Entertaining Programs, as well as sold for home movie distribution.

However, restoration of the original Paramount openings to the black and white cartoons and shorts would be difficult, since U.M.

& M. actually altered the original black-and-white negatives, although with today's CGI technology it is possible to authentically recreate such titles.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive has restored many of the classic Paramount cartoons, complete with their original titles.