Melendez Films#Mendelson/Melendez Productions

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{{Short description|Film animation studio}}{{Primary sources|date=March 2008}}

{{Infobox company|

name = Bill Melendez Productions
Melendez Films
Melendez Features, Inc.|

logo = |

type = Privately held|

foundation = 1962 (as Bill Melendez Productions) |

founder = Steven C. Melendez
Bill Melendez|

location = London, England, United Kingdom
Burbank, California, United States
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico|

key_people = J.C. Melendez
Steven C. Melendez
Kaj Melendez
Mirza-Javed Melendez|

num_employees = 70 (at peak)|

industry = Animation
Film |

revenue = |

products = Animated feature films |

operating profit = |

homepage = [http://www.billmelendez.tv/ Bill Melendez Inc]

| divisions = Mendelson/Melendez Productions

}}

Melendez Films (formerly Bill Melendez Productions and Melendez Features, Inc.) is a film animation studio. It was founded in 1962 by Steven C. Melendez, the son of Peanuts animator Bill Melendez.

The studio produced the ambitious animated feature film Dick Deadeye, based on the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1979 the company produced a one-and-a-half-hour television special based on the C.S. Lewis classic book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the film subsequently won two Emmy Awards for "best animated film" and "script adaptation". Melendez Films has also produced many series for television including "Fred Basset" and "The Perishers", as well as educational mini films like Molly and the Skywalkerz for PBS, which were not rebroadcast for a couple of decades and did not surface on home media until after the 1998 VHS debut.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

The company continues to create commercials in France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece and Sweden as well as the UK and the U.S. working for clients such as Scandinavian Airlines, Schick, British Rail, Colgate, Ferrero, and the British Government.

==Mendelson/Melendez Productions ==

{{infobox company

| name = Mendelson/Melendez Productions

| former_name = Lee Mendelson/Bill Melendez Productions

| founders = Lee Mendelson
Bill Melendez

| successor= Film Roman
Lee Mendelson Film Productions
Bill Melendez Productions

| fate = Retirement of co-founder Bill Melendez

| foundation = 1965

| defunct = 2006

| predecessor = Playhouse Pictures

| products = Peanuts
Garfield
(until 1983)
The Fantastic Funnies
No Man's Valley

| owner = Lee Mendelson Film Productions
Bill Melendez Productions

}}

Mendelson/Melendez Productions (sometimes credited as Mendelson-Melendez Productions and formerly as Lee Mendelson/Bill Melendez Productions.) was an American animation studio founded in 1965 and was active until 2006. It was mostly famous for its Peanuts animated specials.

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