LUCY & SCHROEDER \"My Piano Is Not A Stratolounger\" 1970 Prod. Cel Bill Melendez
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LUCY & SCHROEDER \"My Piano Is Not A Stratolounger\" 1970 Prod. Cel Bill Melendez:
$775.00
\"My Piano Is Not A Stratolounger!\" from the Peanut\'s Animated Special, \"Play It Again, Charlie Brown\"
Lucy and Schroeder
Bill Melendez Bio
José Cuahtemoc Meléndez, better known asBill Melendez, (November 15, 1916 - September 2, 2008) was a Mexican-born American character animator, film director and producer. He is well known for his cartoons based onCharles M. Schulz\'sPeanutscomic strips, for which he also provided the voices ofSnoopyandWoodstock.
Melendez was born in the Mexican city of Hermosillo, Sonora. His family moved to the United States in 1928. He attended school in Douglas, Arizona and Los Angeles, California. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, which later became theCalifornia Institute of the Arts.
The animation career of Bill Melendez began in 1938 and would continue until 2006. Melendez started his career at Walt Disney Studios where he worked onPinocchio,Fantasiaand Mickey Mouse shorts. He worked on Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig cartoons at Warner Bros. and later moved to UPA where he animated the cartoon adaptation ofGerald McBoing Boing.
Bill Melendez first met Charles M. Schulz in 1959, when he was making television commercials for theFord Motor Companywhich featured thePeanutscharacters. Melendez became the only artist that Schulz would authorize to animate the characters.
In 1963 he founded Bill Melendez Productions, the studio initially being located in the basement of his home in Los Angeles. A British subsidiary, Melendez Films, known for its cartoons based on the comic stripsFred BassetandThe Perishers, was founded in 1969. Both Melendez Films and Bill Melendez Productions are still active, Bill Melendez Productions now being run by Steven Melendez, Bill Melendez\'s son.
Bill Melendez died on September 2, 2008, at the age of 91.
LUCY & SCHROEDER \"My Piano Is Not A Stratolounger\" 1970 Prod. Cel Bill Melendez:
$775.00