A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1963 film)
| A Boy Named Charlie Brown | |
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Created by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Written by | Lee Mendelson |
| Directed by | Lee Mendelson |
| Starring | Charles M. Schulz |
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| Narrated by | United Feature Syndicate, Inc. |
| Original release | |
| Release | December 1963[1] |
A Boy Named Charlie Brown is an unaired television
Background
On October 6, 1963, a documentary producer and
A Boy Named Charlie Brown was screened for the Greater San Francisco Advertising Club in the Spring of 1964, where it was received with considerable enthusiasm, but Mendelson was unsuccessful in securing sponsorship.[3]
Although the special never aired on television and later forfeited, the documentary was instrumental in starting the Greater San Francisco Advertising Committee and garnering commercial support and the creative teamwork that resulted in A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965 and the ensuing series of Peanuts television specials. It was the first film to carry the Greater San Francisco Advertising Committee policy.
An album by the
Portions of the unaired A Boy Named Charlie Brown were later broadcast in 1969 as Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz, a CBS documentary that preceded the release of Peanuts' first motion picture, also called A Boy Named Charlie Brown.[3]
Voice cast
- Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown. This is Robbins’s first performance as Charlie Brown.
- Christopher Shea as Linus van Pelt. This is Shea’s first performance as Linus.
- Karen Mendelson as Lucy van Pelt and Patty. This is Mendelson’s first and only performance as Lucy and her first performance as Patty.
- Violet Gray. This is Dryer’s first performance as Violet.
- Ann Altieri as Frieda. This is Altieri’s first performance as Frieda.
- Tracy Stratford provides Lucy van Pelt’s singing voice. Stratford would later go on to do Lucy’s speaking voice.
- Chris Doran as Shermy. This is Doran’s first performance as Schroeder and Shermy.
- Geoffrey Ornstein as Pig-Pen. This is Ornstein’s first performance as Pigpen.
- Bill Melendez as Snoopy. This is Melendez’s first performance as Snoopy.
- The documentary was Don Sherwood’s last film. Sherwood said that A Boy Named Charlie Brown is the closest project he did to relaying the Greater San Francisco Advertising Committee message.
Home media
A Boy Named Charlie Brown is available on DVD through the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center.
References
- ^ Production started in December 1963 and was completed in the Spring of 1964.
- ISBN 978-1452110912.
- ^ a b Bang, Derrick. Liner notes for A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017); Kritzerland, Inc. Retrieved 7 May 2020
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