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CHARLES M. SCHULZ (1922-2000) / BILL MELENDEZ PRODUCTIONS You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown. 3 animation cel setup and color model drawing, 1975. 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches.
This is a fantastic Peanuts 3 animation cel setup and matching color model drawing of Charlie Brown as a steely-eyed baseball pitcher in the classic TV special "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown," which was produced by Bill Melendez Productions and first aired October 28th, 1975. The cel setup features an unusually large character image (approximately 4 3/16th inches tall from top of the hat to the bottom of the baseball, and 4 3/16th in at the widest parts) consisting of the main figure and two separate cel layers for Charlie's eyes and mouth. The drawing is nicely hand-colored and has color notations for ink and paint reference, as well as an animator's timing chart (which indicates it is a key pose drawn by a head animator, rather than an inbetweener). It is very uncommon for all of these matching scene elements to remain together after so many years.
The matching scene appears near the end of the special at the 24 min 9 sec mark, when Charlie Brown -fresh off a race win and brimming with newfound confidence- declares to his teammates "...Nothing can stop me! After 980 straight defeats, we're finally going to win our first baseball game" (which, no surprise to any Peanuts fan, does not work out as planned).An appropriate / scene matching print background is included for presentation purposes.
