| Nelvana
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| Founded
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July 30, 1971[1]
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| Defunct
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August 29, 2025[2] (production studio only)[3]
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| First Super Mario television series
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Donkey Kong Country
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| Final president
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Mellany Welsh
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Nelvana is a Canadian animation production company. It produced the Donkey Kong Country animated series.
History[edit]
Nelvana was not initially involved in the production of the Donkey Kong Country television series, but it was approached by French studio Medialab for assistance.[4] Medialab had acquired the rights to make a Donkey Kong Country series, but the company fired the original writers as they turned in scripts that were judged terrible and unacceptable for a children's program.[4] Since Medialab had already produced storyboards for ten of the scrapped scripts, Nelvana decided to hire a freelancer to write new episodes around the storyboards as well as hire other writers to make new episodes. The company later purchased the rights to the show from Medialab[4] and produced a third season for Fox with Hong Guang Animation (Su Zhou).
Notable employees[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Nelvana - Anime News Network. Anime News Network. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ^ @FortierMorghan (August 29, 2025). There is no news about this. No announcements. But Nelvana closed its doors today. My dad worked there. It was, to a great extent, the playground I grew up in. It breaks my heart where the industry is going. This company deserved better announcement around this. Better celebration of its contribution to the Canadian entertainment system. But just…. nothing.. X (English). Retrieved September 2, 2025. (Archived September 2, 2025, 01:31:34 UTC via archive.today.)
- ^ O'Kane, Josh and Galea, Irene (September 3, 2025). Corus halts production at animation studio Nelvana, says it will focus on managing existing properties. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved September 3, 2025. (Archived September 3, 2025, 02:22:24 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ a b c Retrojunk page for Donkey Kong Country (August 5, 2008). Erika Strobel's comment is under the username "canuckgirl1966" (Retrieved April 24, 2016)
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