26 Facts About Nelvana

Nelvana Enterprises, Inc is a Canadian animation studio and entertainment company owned by Corus Entertainment.

Nelvana's production logo is a polar bear looking at Polaris, the North Star.

Nelvana actually had a history with himself, beginning his career in 1964, being an animator on The Beatles and The Lone Ranger.

Nelvana started in 1971 when two graduates of York University, Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, teamed up with a Vitaphone animator-designer Clive A Smith in Toronto, Ontario.

Under those conditions, Nelvana was involved in the production of documentaries and live-action films during the early 1970s.

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When Nelvana was founded in 1971, their original goal was to create live-action productions involving animation in them during their early days.

Nelvana worked on their first television specials: A Cosmic Christmas, The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978), Romie-0 and Julie-8 (1979), Please Don't Eat the Planet (better known by its subtitle, Intergalactic Thanksgiving) (1979), Easter Fever (1980) and Take Me Up to the Ball Game (1980).

At the beginning of the 1980s, Nelvana was offered the chance to work on Heavy Metal, an animated anthology of science fiction stories that studios in Canada and other countries were working on.

Nelvana faced bankruptcy for the second time when the show's original U S distributor was going out of business; in six weeks, they were saved when they found a replacement.

Also that year, Nelvana established BearSpots, a facility for producing television commercials that lasted until 1993.

In September 1995, Nelvana produced Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys based on the popular well-known book series.

In December 1997, Nelvana began distributing a syndicated programming block, the Nelvana Kidz Klub, through MediaVentures International, a Chicago-based distributor.

Nelvana, founded in 1977, was best known for its children's series, Books Plus.

Nelvana saw the purchase as being a complement to its children's television networks, including YTV and Treehouse.

In 2001, Nelvana acquired the rights to the English-language version of yet another anime series, Medabots.

In September 2006, Nelvana was integrated into Corus' children's television division.

In October 2006, Nelvana announced a co-production agreement with Canadian toy maker Spin Master and Japanese partners TMS Entertainment, Sega Toys and Japan Vistec to create the new anime property Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

Nelvana had already used the company's software on projects like 6teen, Ruby Gloom as well as the aforementioned Detentionaire.

On October 19, 2016, Nelvana redesigned their logo to mark the studio's 45th anniversary, as well as take part in Corus' brand refresh following latter's acquisition of Shaw Media.

In 2018, Nelvana appointed Cinedigm as the company's new U S home video partner.

On June 11, 2021, Nelvana celebrated their 50th anniversary on their LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram pages, and official website.

Nelvana has had considerable success with animated fare based on toys; American Greetings' Care Bears has been the most familiar example of this.

Nelvana produced Fresh Beat Band of Spies, an animated revival of The Fresh Beat Band that is produced by 6 Point Harness for Nickelodeon.

Nelvana has had Burglar and Malice as its own feature projects in that area, and has contributed as such to Star Wars Holiday Special and Three Amigos.

On television, Nelvana has made live-action shows such as The Edison Twins, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and Life with Boys.

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Nelvana had a planet named after it in the Star Wars series, on Cartoon Network's expanded universe series Clone Wars.