Melendez Films is a film animation studio. It was founded in 1969 as a London

London

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 subsidiary of Bill Melendez Productions (best known for producing the Peanuts specials) by Steven C. Melendez

Steven C. Melendez

Steven Cuitlahuac Melendez is the second son of famed Peanuts animator Bill Meléndez. He was born in Los Angeles where he gained his early experience in film as an editor with Bill Melendez Productions working on an early Peanuts special, Barbar the Elephant, a suite of commercials and the feature...

 (son of animator Bill Meléndez

Bill Melendez

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series...

).

The studio produced the ambitious animated feature film Dick Deadeye, based on the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan

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. In 1979 the company produced a two hour television special based on the C.S. Lewis classic book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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, 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 among others "Fred Basset

Fred Basset

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" and "The Perishers

The Perishers

The Perishers was a British comic strip about a group of urban children and a dog. It began in the Daily Mirror on 19th October 1959 and was written for most of its life by Maurice Dodd . It was drawn by Dennis Collins until his retirement in 1983, after which it was drawn by Dodd and later by Bill...

", as well as such educational shorts as Happily Ever After and Two Daddies To Love Me for PBS.

The company continues to create commercials for France

France

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, Italy

Italy

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, Spain

Spain

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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, Germany

Germany

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, Greece

Greece

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 and Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 as well as the U.K. and U.S.A. working for clients such as Scandinavian Airlines, Schick

Schick

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, British Rail

British Rail

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, Colgate

Colgate-Palmolive

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, Ferrero

Ferrero

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, and the British Government.