Posts Tagged ‘cartoons’
Bill Melendez, the Voice of Snoopy: RIP
9:36 am By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment|mexico|TV · Comments Off
4 Sep 2008
Does anyone remember Snoopy having a voice? I didn’t, but it seems that Charlie Brown’s canine sidekick did in fact utter a few words (or sounds) and the man behind them was Mexican animator and director Bill (née José Cuauhtemoc) Meléndez, who passed away this week at age 91.
Much more than the voice of Snoopy (and Woodstock), Meléndez was the first Mexican animator to work for Walt Disney, back in 1938. He went on to work for Warner Brothers, animating such classics as Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.
Drawing on his experience at the big animation houses, Melendez founded his own company in the mid-sixties and produced the holiday mainstay A Charlie Brown Christmas, for which he won an Emmy and a Peabody Award. Meléndez went on to produce over 70 Peanuts specials with creator Charles Schulz.
A true pioneer in the field of animation, Meléndez will be missed by Peanuts fans all over.
Via / Radio Perú
Pink Panther to Take Argentina and Chile
3:09 pm By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|Chile|Latin America|Marketing|TV · Comments Off
25 Jan 2008
The Pink Panther — La Pantera Rosa as he’s known in Spanish — is apparently still huge in Latin America. So much so that the Panther’s studio, MGM, is launching a huge branding campaign there to incite renewed PanteramanÃa:
New York-based Big Tent Entertainment has entered into an agreement with MGM Consumer Products to become the exclusive licensing agent for Argentina and Chile, the two companies announced Thursday. “Latin America is a burgeoning marketplace for branded entertainment and I believe it will continue to be so for the foreseeable future,” said Richard Collins, president and CEO of Big Tent.Paul Flett, vice president of worldwide marketing and promotions at MGM, added that the characters of Pink Panther and Rocky have remained hugely popular in both territories over the years — with Panther TV episodes still airing there to buoyant numbers.
The marketers are pointing to a growing middle class with more disposable income in the region as a factor for the upcoming Panther Push. It’s interesting that Latin America they are focusing on selling people recycled stuff from the 80s and 90s rather than new cartoons.
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment
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