The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 14 films: ten animated, and four with live actors.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

The success of Michel Ocelot's Kirikou and the Sorceress in 1998 rejuvenated the production of original feature-length animated films by such filmmakers as Jean-François Laguionie and Sylvain Chomet.

In contrast to the 1990s, fewer major animated features of the 2000s included musical numbers, as the success of Pixar and DreamWorks computer animated films ( which were not musicals ) upset Disney's dominance.

In July 2011, in the wake of critical and box office success of the animated feature, Rango, and the departure of DreamWorks Animation upon completion of their distribution contract in 2012, Paramount announced the formation of a new division, devoted to the creation of animated productions.

This resulted in the Firmin-produced characters looking like they were short in one leg, but the success of the production provided the foundation for Postgate and Firmin to start up their own company solely producing animated children's programmes.

** Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success.

Despite its odd plot and mixed critical reception, the film was a major box-office success, grossing nearly $ 100, 000, 000 in the U. S. alone, almost becoming the first non-Disney animated film to achieve that feat.

" They also said that Hello Kitty not having a mouth has dampened her success as an animated TV character.

The outstanding success of the animated film, Happy Feet, has further reinforced the popular appeal National Tap Dance Day in the United States, now celebrated May 25, was signed into law by President George Bush on November 7, 1989.

Although the film was a financial success, netting the studio a slim profit of $ 226, 000, some critics were less enthusiastic to the film, not so much to the animated portions as to the live-action portions.

The success of the game resulted in an animated television show based on its elements, and the game's re-release on later Nintendo consoles.

The animated series received significantly more positive press than the film, received two Primetime Emmy awards ( including " Outstanding Animated Program ( For Programming More Than One Hour ))," and was a moderate success when eventually released on DVD.

Musical series such as Cassidy's The Partridge Family, the animated series The Archie Show, and ( to a lesser extent ) The Brady Bunch integrated television and teen-pop music to significant success during this time frame.

The New York Times Vincent Canby wrote, " I'm amazed at the success that Mr. Bakshi has in turning animated characters into figures of real feelings.

After Daffy Duck was created, he would add even more success to Warner Bros cartoons and replaced Porky Pig as the studio's most popular animated character, and Bob Clampett took over Termite Terrice, while Tex Avery took over the Merry Melodies department.

While much of the focus in an animated cartoon is on the visuals, the vocal talents and symphonic scores that accompanied the images were also very important to the cartoons ' success.

The success of King Kong led to a number of other early special effects films, including Mighty Joe Young, which was also animated by O ' Brien and helped to start the careers of several animators, including Ray Harryhausen, who came into his own in the 1950s.

Television animation developed from the success of animated movies in the first half of the 20th century.

After the immense success of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, which premiered on CBS in 1969, the next decade of Hanna-Barbera's animated output would follow that show's formula: a group of teenagers solving mysteries or fighting crime, usually with the help of a wacky animal or a ghost.

Other attempts to bring comic strip characters to TV did not have anywhere near as much success until one of the Peanuts directors, Phil Roman, brought the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield to TV starting in 1982, resulting in 11 specials and a long-running animated series.

Mermaid was a huge critical and commercial success, won two Academy Awards for its song score, and became the first of a series of highly successful new Disney animated features.

Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.

The segment is an unprecedented success and spins off into the long running stage show.

Following the success of this concert, they were asked to return to the event in Oslo, Norway with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic Choir where they played, among other songs, Metallica's " One " during a Guitar Hero segment.

Despite the success of the CX design ( and the unbroken legacy of dominance in this segment stretching back to 1934, there was no new and improved " big Citroën " model on the horizon by 1981.

" Every Time You Go Away " topped the pop charts in the U. S., and was his biggest success in the U. S. He would perform the song during the London segment of the Live Aid concert.

Independence is the unique characteristic of this segment of the education industry, offering schools four freedoms that contribute to their success: the freedom to define their own unique missions ; the freedom to admit and keep only those students well-matched to the mission ; the freedom to define the qualifications for high quality teachers ; and the freedom to determine on their own what to teach and how to assess student achievement and progress.

On the ABC News TV program Nightline, April 18, 2011, there was a feature segment on Panda Express and its success.

The mini-truck was a huge success in India with auto-analysts claiming that Ace had changed the dynamics of the light commercial vehicle ( LCV ) market in the country by creating a new market segment termed the small commercial vehicle ( SCV ) segment.

They also had some success in the United States, working on productions like the animated segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978.

Shalamar was featured in a segment of TV One's series Unsung, in which Watley, Daniel and Hewett shared their stories about the creation of the group, the lack of payment and royalties from Solar Records, success, egos, and the breakup of the classic lineup.

It was offered nationally after the success of PRI's Chicago-based This American Life, which it somewhat resembles ; one distinction is that TNBT is more likely to be given over to one documentary or radio drama segment per episode.

After an intermission segment in which Ash's Pokédex Dexter explains his important contribution to Ash's continuing success (" What Kind of Pokémon Are You?

However, success in a certain market segment does not only require knowledge about the competitors and their products ' performance, but also about the impressions the products make on the customer.

The BMW X3 was a big sales success for the marque and inspired similar offerings from rivals in the compact luxury crossover segment, such as the Acura RDX, Audi Q5, Cadillac SRX, Infiniti EX35, Mercedes-Benz GLK and Land Rover LR2.

During the 1990s, 2Day FM enjoyed ratings success, especially with its breakfast program The Morning Crew ( featuring well-known Australian comedian Wendy Harmer and television comedian Peter Moon ) which consistently topped its segment in the Sydney radio market for years.

Oak enjoyed modest success in the value segment ( low-end ) of the market, but without an effective Windows accelerator, ultimately failed to remain competitive.

The family is a success and have soon hit the top, thrilling audiences at New York's famed Hippodrome Theatre with an extravagant multi-themed performance of " Alexander's Ragtime Band " with each family member being featured in their own segment in addition to the ensemble sections which bookend the piece.

White was initially enthusiastic about an idea of a black " opera " because " A recent Broadway success was Shuffle Along, a show with an all-black cast — its words and music by the black creative team of Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake ... White seems to have imagined that a black-oriented segment in the new edition of his revue would capitalize on Shuffle Along's appeal.

Though he modelled his approach on that of another Birmingham firm, Nettlefold and Chamberlain, he achieved less success, possibly being less ruthless and embedded in a more complicated market segment.

Although U. S. distribution represented the major segment of sales, the international market also had an impact on NAL's success.

In Sweden electronics maker Ericsson began developing one in the mid-1960s, intending to market them to government, institutions, businesses and industry, but not to consumers due to AT & T's lack of success in that market segment.

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