PEANUTS DE SCHULZ – ::: N O R M AA L ::: ::: N O R M AA L :::

I’ve written a couple of times about the 500 minute-and-a-half-long Peanuts shorts being produced in France, but now I can finally show some of them to you, thanks to a site that AAUGH Blog reader Guillaume pointed me to. Surf on over to the production company’s website, scroll down a bit, and you” find a video display for 5 clips (mysteriously labeled “EXTRAIT 01″,”EXTRAIT 03”, “EXTRAIT 04”, “EXTRAIT 05”, and “EXTRAIT 06”; what happened to EXTRAIT 02, we may never know!) totaling about half an hour. The visual choices are very interesting; they aggressively try to invoke reading a comic strip, using panels at time, and using dotted color areas meant to invoke the printing process used in the Sunday comics. While they’re adapting strips from a variety of eras, the characters designs are from late in the run. Watching them in French – a language I don’t know – is interesting, and the voices fit the characters in my mind to varying degrees (Molly Volley works quite well.) These are being translated for various markets, so with luck we will someday get to watch this material in English!

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More on Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

Well, there’s a promotional video out now out Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical… but I can’t right off find any source that will let me embed it here. But I did manage to grab some screenshots. The plot is apparently that Sally is going to summer camp for the first time, …

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Look who’s coming to television

We’re less than a month away from the new Peanuts special Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical (debuts on AppleTV+ July 18) and I just saw some promotional images I hadn’t seen before… including this shot from a very brief video. Now look closely at the girl crowdsurfing. See who that is? …

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Animated Peanuts musical en route

Coming to streaming screens this summer is Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical, a 40-minute animated special with music composed by Jeff Morrow and one of Dr. Mrs. The AAUGH Blogger’s favorites, Ben Folds. The special, which is about the kids finding their favorite summer camp is not long for this …