Saturday, December 05, 2020

The kids record the "Peanuts" characters' voice, 1960s

 One of the flak that TV shows receive from their audiences today is misrepresentation. There are adults who portray high school students, and then there are other nationalities who play a specific race. Back in the 1960s, Peanuts creator Charles Schultz already knew it was important to have the voices of actual children on the animated adaptation of his comic strip. 


Since kids are still limited to their abilities, one of the kid actors, Todd Barbee, revealed that an adult may have filled in for him in one scene, "One time they wanted me to voice that ‘AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGG’... Try as I might, I just couldn’t generate... so after something like 25 takes, we moved on... I think they eventually got an adult or a kid with an older voice to do that one take."

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