It's the easter beagle

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Movie
German title It's the easter beagle
Original title It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Country of production USA
original language English
Publishing year 1974
length 30 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Phil Roman
script Charles M. Schulz
production Bill Meléndez,
Lee Mendelson
music Vince Guaraldi ,
John Scott Trotter
camera Nick Vasu
cut Chuck McCann,
Roger Donley

It's the Easter Beagle is a Peanuts - Cartoons , of the comics of the artist Charles M. Schulz is based. The film is the twelfth of over forty short films with the Peanuts that were produced between 1965 and 1994. The cartoon was nominated for an Emmy in 1975 .

The TV special first aired in the United States at Easter on April 9, 1974 in the evening program on CBS Network . After that, CBS broadcast it annually at Easter from 1974 to 2000. ABC repeated the special sporadically from 2001 to 2014. It was first broadcast in Germany on March 27, 1978 on ZDF .

plot

While most of the peanuts are busy preparing for Easter, Linus tries in vain to convince them that everything is just a waste of time and that the Easter beagle will take care of everything. Only Charlie Brown's sister Sally believes him, although she remains skeptical after waiting in vain for the big pumpkin on Halloween .

While Peppermint Patty prepares the colors for coloring the Easter eggs , Marcie tries to prepare the eggs according to instructions, but since she has never done this, she constantly makes mistakes. Meanwhile, Lucy instructs Schroeder that Easter is a time when boys give gifts to girls. Annoyed, he explains to her that Easter is the time of renewal, the beginning of spring.

Woodstock wakes up shivering in his nest after a cold spring rain. He turns to Snoopy, Charlie Brown's beagle , who buys him a bird feeder. At first, Woodstock hates it, but soon converts it into a fully furnished bachelorette party. Curious to see more of the inside, Snoopy gets his nose stuck in the entrance hole and accidentally smashes the aviary, whereupon he buys Woodstock another house. When everyone goes into town to do the rest of the Easter shopping, Linus tries again to convince his friends of the existence of the Easter beagle, until Lucy screams indignantly that there is no Easter beagle. With Peppermint Patty's last pocket money, she and Marcie buy a third pack of eggs. Marcie ruins this one too. Meanwhile, Lucy decides not to leave anything to chance. She hides her self-painted eggs in the forest and notes the exact location of each one in order to find them on Easter morning. She's sure to have the best egg hunt ever.

Snoopy follows her unnoticed and collects every single one of the eggs. On Easter morning, when everyone is depressed and joyless, he dances as an Easter beagle and hands out eggs to everyone. Sally also stops berating Linus for believing him when they notice the beagle. By the time he gets to Charlie Brown, Snoopy has run out of eggs and instead just gives disappointed Charlie Brown an embarrassed smile. In the end, when everyone (except Charlie Brown) has received Easter eggs, everyone is happy except Lucy. She is still angry that the Easter beagle gave her one of her own eggs. Linus suggests that she talk to Snoopy about it. She goes to his kennel to provoke an argument, but Snoopy takes her anger off with a disarming kiss on the cheek. Lucy smiles because Easter made her happy after all. Then she says affirmatively: "What an Easter Beagle!"

Original speaker

role English speakers
Charlie Brown Todd Barbee (last speaking role as Charlie Brown,
who was subsequently voiced by Duncan Watson)
Sally Brown Lynn Mortensen
Linus van Pelt Stephen Shea
Lucy van Pelt Melanie Kohn
Marcie James "Jimmy" Ahrens
Peppermint Patty Linda Ercoli
Snoopy / Woodstock Bill Meléndez
Schroeder Greg Felton

Film music

The music was composed by Vince Guaraldi and conducted and arranged by John Scott Trotter . On February 12, 20, 26 and March 14, 1974 she was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio at Wally Heider Studios, along with Seward McCain (bass) and Eliot Zigmund (drums).

The song Snoopy and Woodstock is an adaptation of the song Mystery Theme from the movie Who Stole the Nest? ( It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown ), which aired two months before It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown .

  1. Peppermint Patty
  2. Easter theme
  3. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 3, 1st movement - Allegro con brio ( Ludwig van Beethoven )
  4. Snoopy and Woodstock (Version 1)
  5. Linus and Lucy (Version 1)
  6. Woodstock's Dream (Version 1)
  7. Background No. 1
  8. Easter theme
  9. Woodstock's Dream (Version 2)
  10. Snoopy and Woodstock (Version 2)
  11. Background No. 2
  12. Kitchen Music (Version 1)
  13. Linus and Lucy (Version 2)
  14. Woodstock's pad
  15. Woodstock's Dream (Version 3)
  16. Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, Menuet in B flat major, Paloneiße (sic) in G minor (BWV Anh. 116–119) ( Johann Sebastian Bach )
  17. Woodstock's Dream (Version 4)
  18. Kitchen Music (Version 2)
  19. Linus and Lucy (Version 1)
  20. Linus and Lucy (Version 2)
  21. Beethoven's 7th Symphony, Second Movement - Allegretto (Ludwig van Beethoven)
  22. Beethoven's 7th Symphony, first movement - Poco sostenuto (Ludwig van Beethoven)
  23. Background No. 3
  24. Linus and Lucy (Version 3)
  25. Easter theme

No official soundtrack for the film has been released. In the mid-2000s, Guaraldi's son David discovered the master tapes from seven Peanuts television specials from the 1970s that Guaraldi had set to music. This led to the release of Snoopy and Woodstock (version 1) and Kitchen Music (version 2), which were released on the compilation album Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials, Volume 2 (2008). In addition, in 2008 a live version of Woodstock's Pad (incorrectly titled Then Came You ) was released on the double CD Live on the Air from a concert by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, originally recorded on February 6, 1974 (two years before Guaraldi's death).

media

It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown was first released on DVD on April 4, 2003 by Paramount Home Entertainment . The film was then released by Warner Bros. Entertainment along with other specials on May 5, 2009 with 13 episodes as the Peanuts Deluxe Collection , on October 20, 2009 under the title Peanuts 1970's Collection Volume 1 and on November 17, 2009. He was also 2004 UK Firefly Entertainment, along with life is a Circus, Charlie Brown's ( life is a Circus, Charlie Brown ) published.

Earlier home media releases of It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown were in the past 1982 in CED format (Capacitance Electronic Disc), 1986 and 1988 on VHS from Media Home Entertainment and the subsidiary Hi-Tops Video, from 9. March 1994 from Paramount Home Video in a slipcase and from October 1, 1996 in a flip cover.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Solomon: The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation: Celebrating Fifty Years of Television Specials . Chronicle Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4521-1091-2 , pp. 120-121
  2. ↑ George W. Woolery: Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987 . Scarecrow Press, 1989, ISBN 0-8108-2198-2 , pp. 217-218
  3. ↑ It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown ( Memento July 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ It's the Easter beagle on fernsehserien.de . Retrieved March 18, 2021
  5. ↑ a b c The Internet Animation Database: It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown . Retrieved March 18, 2021
  6. ↑ a b c Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts Song Library: It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown . In: fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved March 18, 2021
  7. ↑ Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi Timeline . In: fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved March 18, 2021
  8. ↑ a b c AllMusic: Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown TV Specials , Volume 2. Accessed March 18, 2021
  9. ↑ Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD: Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials, Volume 2 . In: fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved March 18, 2021
  10. ^ AllMusic: Live on the Air . Retrieved March 18, 2021