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The   Nintendo Entertainment System   (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an   8-bit   home video game console   that was developed and manufactured by   Nintendo . It was initially released in Japan as the Family Computer (also known by the   portmanteau abbreviation   Famicom on July 15, 1983, and was later released in New York city in 1985, and throughout the U.S as well as in Europe during 1986 and 1987, and Australia in 1987. In South Korea, it was known as the   Hyundai   Comboy and was distributed by   SK Hynix   which then was known as Hyundai Electronics. The   best-selling gaming console   of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the   video game crash of 1983 . With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard   business model   of licensing   third-party developers , authorizing them to produce and distribute titles for Nintendo's platform. It was succeede...

Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney . Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault , it is the 12th Disney animated feature film . The film was directed by Clyde Geronimi , Hamilton Luske , and Wilfred Jackson . Mack David , Jerry Livingston , and Al Hoffman wrote the songs, which include "Cinderella", " A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes ", "Sing Sweet Nightingale", "The Work Song", " Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo ", and "So This is Love". It features the voices of Ilene Woods , Eleanor Audley , Verna Felton , Rhoda Williams , James MacDonald , Luis van Rooten , Don Barclay , Mike Douglas , William Phipps , and Lucille Bliss . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1950_film) ------------------------------ "Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale about unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures . Based on the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm , it is the first full-length traditionally animated feature film and the first Disney animated feature film . The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris , Otto Englander, Earl Hurd , Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson , Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen directed the film's individual sequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film) ------------------------------ "Snow White" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' F...

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie . Directed by Clyde Geronimi , Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson , it is the 14th Disney animated feature film . Starring the voices of Bobby Driscoll , Kathryn Beaumont , Hans Conried , Paul Collins , Heather Angel , and Bill Thompson , the film's plot involves a group of kids who meet Peter Pan and travel to the island of Never Land to stay young, where Peter also attempts to evade Captain Hook . The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival , and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Radio Pictures . Peter Pan was the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney founded his own distribution company , as well as the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. A sequel t...

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , shortened Hogwarts, is a fictional British school of   magic   for students aged eleven to eighteen, and is the primary setting for the first six books in   J.K. Rowling 's   Harry Potter   series. Rowling has suggested that she may have inadvertently taken the name from the  hogwort  plant (Croton capitatus), which she had seen at  Kew Gardens  some time before writing the series, although the names "The Hogwarts" and "Hoggwart" appear in the 1954  Nigel Molesworth  book How To Be Topp by  Geoffrey Willans . Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in a 2008 online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's  Loretto School . According to a director of the Independent Schools Network Rankings, it was added to the schools listing "for fun" and was then voted on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogwarts ------------------------------ Platform Nine and Three...