A Charlie Brown Christmas (cartoon)

A Charlie Brown Christmas is an American animated television special from 1965. It is the first of many primetime animated specials based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles m. Schulz. The special was produced and directed by Bill Meléndez, who also did the voice of the character Snoopy. The special was broadcast annually from 1965 to 1999 on CBS, and since 2000 on ABC.



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[verbergen]  *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == While Charlie Brown and Linus van Pelt on their way to the frozen pond where the rest of the group to the skating is, they discuss the approaching holidays. Despite the many Christmas cards and party decorations feel Charlie is still just as depressed as different.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 History
 * 4 other versions
 * 5 Prices
 * 6 Influence
 * 7 external links

Finally decide Charlie for advice to Lucy's psychiatric help stand for to go. She advises him to organize a play for school based on the birth of Jesus. That will help him to get in the Christmas mood .

On the way to the Auditorium is busy Charlie comes along to Snoopy, which decorate his Doghouse. He does apparently entered into a close contest who the most beautiful Christmas decoration can think of. Charlie is frustrated that his own dog even though joining in with the commercialization of Christmas. Later also shows his little sister Sally Brown to be affected by the marketing when they write a letter to Santa Claus in which she begs.

Charlie begins with the preparations of the play, but runs up against a lot of opposition. Most children who want to modernize the story would like to play along, while Charlie wants to keep everything as original as possible. Hoping his fellow players to bring some more in the mood he decides for them to get a Christmas tree. While Lucy takes over the organisation, is Charlie with Linus to a local Christmas tree market. However, there appear to be only art trees to be sold, with the exception of a small tree. Linus has doubts about Charlies choice, but Charlie is convinced that with the right trim this small tree best yet what can be.

The others think otherwise, and when the duo with the tree comes back they get scolded. Charlie begins to doubt himself now he is knows the true meaning of Christmas. Linus helps him by on the scene to quote from the Gospel according to Lucas, and especially about the piece in which the angels to the shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus Christ . Convinced that he does not have to make his Christmas all through the widely prevailing commercialization, Charlie takes the tree to his home to decorate him there.

Along the way he lavishly decorated Doghouse of Snoopy, which has just won the first prize in the close race. This gives him an idea, and he used a couple of Snoopy's decorations for the tree.However, the weight of the decorations is too much for the small tree, and it bends by. Charlie runs off disappointed. Scarcely is he's gone, or the rest of the group arrives at the doghouse. Also inspired by Linus ' speech bending them the tree straight again and decorate him further. When Charlie comes back and the tree can not believe his eyes, he initially sees. The others wish him a nice Christmas. During the end credits the song sounds ''Hark! The Herald Angels Sing ''. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==History<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Making an animated version of the comic strip Peanuts was not an easy task. The creators of the strip presented the idea for a Christmas special on CBS. Coca-Cola agreed to sponsor the special, provided that there are a few references to the cola brand in would be processed.
 * Peter Robbins: Charlie Brown
 * Christopher Shea: Linus van Pelt
 * Tracy Stratford: Lucille "Lucy" van Pelt
 * Kathy Steinberg: Sally Brown
 * Chris Doran: Schroeder and Swetha
 * Geoffrey Ornstein: Pigpen
 * Karen Mendelson: Patty
 * Sally Dryer: Violet Gray
 * Ann Altieri: Frieda
 * Bill Meléndez: Snoopy

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The production was done with a minimum budget, which reflected on the animation style and the sound. For the voices of the characters were largely children used. On the voice actors of Charlie Brown (Peter Robbins) and Lucy (Tracy Stratford), none of these children had experience with after work. Kathy Steinberg, who did the voice of Sally, was even too young to be able to read. Therefore had to be for its text said.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Network officials were not all pleased with the way that Schulz and Melendez were smashed with the special. So they found that Linus not the story should read about Jesus ' birth.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="189" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]. However, firm heels there he himself Schulz vehement against the commercialisation of Christmas was, and like to put up another show on television saw that would emphasize the true meaning of Christmas.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Another point of criticism was that Schulz refused to process the special sound of laughing in public in support of the funny scenes. When the officials saw the final version, they feared that it would be a flop.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">However, when the special aired, it proved a great success. This success opened the way for Schulz to make more specials based on his comic series. Since the first broadcast is the special has become a tradition for the Christmas period.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">CBS retained the rights to the special until 1999. In January 2000, a month before the death of Schulz, ABC got the rights as part of a deal between the network and Schulz. The special was released on dvd In september 2002. ==Other versions<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The full version of the special is broadcast only three times, in 1965, 1966 and 1967. From 1968 was Coca-Cola no longer the primary sponsor of the special, which the producers decided all references to this cola brand from the special to catch up. ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="355" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">In 1966 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Special Classification of Individual Achievements, and won the Emmy for Outstanding children's Program.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">That same year won the special the Peabody Award. ==Influence<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The music of A Charlie Brown Christmas, composed by jazz composer Vince Guaraldi, is almost as familiar as the special itself. Especially the song "Linus and Lucy" became after the special characteristic musical number for the Peanutsspecials.

<p lang="en" len="77" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">References and parodies on the special are processed in many other media.