Clip from "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," 1963

A day in the life of Charles Schulz from the 1963 documentary "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
(Video courtesy of United Media)

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[quizzlefits]

Wow, I wish this clip had gone on and on. Such a fascinating look into someone who we did not know... we knew his characters and his humor but not the person.

Seeing him at the desk, drawing, that is almost like being in the presence of something so awesome.

And the comic strip is so big when he draws it!

Such a gentle soul. I think he was not a very happy person in life; I mean, he was funny, but I think there was a great deal of Charlie Brown in him: many failures, loss, and melancholy.

[RogerKaputnik]

It doesn't get better than that. It really doesn't. Schulz was a Genius!

[lttlbrdCHANNEL]

He says in another interview that he's not Charlie Brown, there's really a little bit of every character coming from him. Every character is another side of him. Any aspiring writer can admire that as a truly sincere way to shape and create characters.

[owlie14]

Dang, how many kids fit in that car?

[smoothjazzweolfe]

I was born in 1965, Charlie Brown was my imaginary friend and I read everything; not to mention saw all the specials and movies(in the theater no less). Charles Shulz will always have a special place in my heart.

[kelvinpyaeko]

@MrBigYum lol at yo comment marked as spams, bitch, lmao you aint making no sense

[entertainmentguy1984]

is this documentary also on the dvd for "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"???

[gabby1675]

why did charles have to die:(

[fromthesidelines]

...and he'd lie awake in bed (like Charlie Brown) and ponder things like, "Sometimes I lie in bed at night, and I ask myself, 'Why?'...then a voice comes to me that says, 'Why, what?'" [3/15/91].

[fromthesidelines]

Schulz once said, "if you read the strip often enough, you get to know me". And he was right- virtually everything he wrote into it was a reflection of his own life; he didn't like coconut candy; he said he'd "never be another Andrew Wyeth"; his favorite movie was "Citizen Kane", his favorite book- "The Great Gatsby"; his second wife Jeannie often said, "Poor, sweet baby" to him [that line often turned up in the '70s and '80s].....