Cartoon

‘The Peanuts Movie’ will enchant younger audiences with its spirit of adventure, while offering adults a welcome respite from irony and ugliness

The connection between music and animation is an incredibly close one. In 1940, Walt Disney pioneered with his first animated full-length feature, a musical telling of Snow White and even before, cartoons were common in movie theaters, rounding out the double bills along with newsreels and comedy shorts. For decades, audiences watched shorts this way …