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That show is \"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,\"and it looks nothing like today's glossy computer animation. Its backgrounds are soft, hand-painted autumn colors, its lines a little wobbly, and its music is a jazzy piano that seems to shrug and smile at the same time. If you have ever seen a boy in a striped shirt clutch a blanket while everyone else laughs at him, you have met this world. It is small, gentle, and oddly unforgettable.  \nThat striped-shirt world came straight from the pen of one man, cartoonist Charles Schulz. Schulz drew the Peanuts comic strip for newspapers starting in 1950, and by the mid-1960s his characters were famous across the country. In 1966, he teamed with producer Lee Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez to turn the strip's Halloween ideas into a television special. Schulz wrote it himself, insisting that the children sound like real children and think about real worries. Can you imagine a cartoon where nobody is a superhero and the biggest question is whether a make-believe pumpkin will appear? That was exactly the point.  \nBecause it grew from a comic strip, the special keeps two stories running side by side, like two lanes of the same road. In one lane, a boy named Linus sits alone all night in the pumpkin patch, certain that a figure called the Great Pumpkin will rise and bring toys to sincere believers. In the other lane, his friends pull on homemade costumes and go trick-or-treating, though poor Charlie Brown keeps getting rocks instead of candy. The two ideas rub against each other: faith and doubt, hope and teasing, the kid who waits and the kids who move on. Schulz never tells you who is right, which is part of why grown-ups argue about it to this day.  \nThat refusal to hand you an easy answer is matched by the sound floating underneath it all. The music was written by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, whose light, bouncing melodies had already given the Peanuts specials their signature feel. Instead of loud, spooky organ music, he used cool piano and brushed drums, turning Halloween into something wistful rather than scary. One reason the show never frightens younger viewers is that Guaraldi's tunes keep the mood warm even when the night gets dark. Music, it turns out, can tell you how to feel long before the characters say a single word.  \nWarm as it sounds, that music sat on top of a mountain of slow, painstaking work. Every second you watch was built from many separate drawings, each one inked and painted by hand and then photographed one frame at a time. Artists had to redraw the same character over and over so it would seem to walk, blink, or drag a blanket across the grass. A single half-hour special could take months, because there were no computers to fill in the in-between pictures. When you notice how simple the animation looks, remember that its simplicity was a choice, not a shortcut.  \nThat choice paid off in a way almost no one expected in 1966. The special has aired on American  \ntelevision nearly every autumn since, first on one network for decades and later on others, making it a family tradition passed down like a recipe. Grandparents who watched it as kids now sit beside grandchildren who are seeing it for the first time, laughing at the very same rocks. Few cartoons made in the 1960s are still shown, sold, and quoted more than half a century later. Not bad for a story in which the main event, a giant pumpkin, never actually shows up.  \nThe Great Pumpkin on TV  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which detail best captures how the special looks and sounds compared with modern cartoons?\u003Cbr>A. Realistic shadows, three-dimensional models, and orchestral strings\u003Cbr>B. Glossy digital effects, smooth motion, and electronic sound\u003Cbr>C. 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