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Mendelson founded and headed Lee Mendelson Film Productions, a Burlingame, California-based television and film production company. Mendelson Productions has produced over 100 television and film productions, winning 12 Emmys and 4 Peabodys as well as numerous Grammy , Emmy, and Oscar nominations.
Lee Mendelson Film Productions is an American animation studio situated in Burlingame, California founded by Lee Mendelson. [1] The studio is best known for the Peanuts animated film productions including Snoopy Come Home and A Boy Named Charlie Brown .
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
Lee Mendelson changed the face of the holidays when he brought “A Charlie Brown Christmas” to television in 1965 and wrote the lyrics to its signature song.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown is an unaired television documentary film about Charles M. Schulz and his creation Peanuts, produced by Lee Mendelson with some animated scenes by Bill Melendez and music by Vince Guaraldi.
These animations were seen by documentary producer Lee Mendelson, and Mendelson hired Melendez to do some interstitial animations for a film he was producing about the comic strip entitled A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Melendez was the only person Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz trusted to turn his popular comic creations into television specials.
"Christmas Time Is Here" is a popular Christmas standard written by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson for the 1965 CBS television special A Charlie Brown Christmas, [1] one of the first animated Christmas specials produced for network television in the United States.
The special is the first one produced without Lee Mendelson or Bill Melendez on the production team, following Melendez's death in 2008. It is also the first special without the direct involvement of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, Lee Mendelson Productions or Bill Melendez Productions. [2]