Q:Information: - Clive A. Smith (often credited as Clive Smith) is a British expatriate director and animator who, with Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, founded Canadian animation studio Nelvana in 1971. Smith worked on some of his studio's first TV specials, including "A Cosmic Christmas" (1977), which was broadcast on CBC Television in Canada and syndicated in the United States proving to be Nelvana's breakthrough production. He also helmed the studio's next special, "The Devil and Daniel Mouse", in 1978. He worked as director of Nelvana's first feature film, 1983's "Rock and Rule", and its 1997 animated version of the Pippi Longstocking saga. He also directed "A Wookie's Christmas" (also known as "The Faithful Wookie") for George Lucas and "Family Dog" for Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg. Smith retired from Nelvana in 2001, the year after he and his co-founders sold the studio to Corus Entertainment. - An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes typically share the same main characters, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can have either a finite number of episodes like a miniseries, a definite end, or be open-ended, without a predetermined number of episodes. They can be broadcast on television, shown in movie theatres, released direct-to-video or on the internet. Like animated films, animated series can be of a wide variety of genres and can also have different target audiences, from children to adults. - Nelvana Ltd. is a Canadian entertainment company founded in 1971 and known for its work in children's animation. It was named by founders Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith after a Canadian comic book superheroine created by Adrian Dingle in the 1940s. The company's production logo is a polar bear looking at the North Star. Corus Entertainment, a spin-off from Shaw Communications, has owned the company since September 2000. - James Brian Jacques (as in "Jakes"; 15 June 1939 5 February 2011) was an English writer, best known for his "Redwall" series of novels and "Castaways of the Flying Dutchman" series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled "The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns" and "Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales". - A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, "Famous Funnies", was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term "comic book" derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone. - Mattimeo is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1989. It is the third book in the "Redwall" series. It is also one of the three "Redwall" novels to be made into a TV series. - Martin the Warrior is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1993. It is the sixth book in the "Redwall" series. It is also one of the three "Redwall" novels to be made into a TV series. - Redwall is an animated series made by Canada - based Nelvana , France - based Alphanim and is based on the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques . The series currently spans three seasons , the first based on the first book Redwall , the second on Mattimeo and the third on Martin the Warrior . The series airs on some PBS channels in the USA , and used to air on Teletoon in Canada on Saturday . - Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales, published in 1991, is a collection of short stories by the author of the Redwall series, Brian Jacques. "Publishers Weekly" said of the book that "Jacques's collection of original ghost stories features 'the requisite apparitions, vampires and satanic incarnations, all spun with a distinctly English flair'." - Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is the first novel in the "Castaways" series by Brian Jacques, published in 2001. It is based on the legend of the cursed ship the "Flying Dutchman". A young boy, Nebuchadnezzar (later Neb (shortened) and Ben (reversed)), and his dog, Denmark (named after the country in which he was found and later Den (shortened) and Ned (reversed)), are the lone survivors of the "Flying Dutchman", fated to wander the earth forever immortal and youthful, helping those who need aid. - Redwall is a series of children's fantasy novels published by Brian Jacques. It is also the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, as well as the name of the Abbey featured in the book and the name of an animated TV series based on three of the novels ("Redwall", "Mattimeo", and "Martin the Warrior"), which first aired in 1999. The books are primarily aimed at older children. There have been twenty-two novels and two picture books published. The twenty-second, and final, novel, "The Rogue Crew", was posthumously released on May 3, 2011. - Patrick Loubert (born Toronto, Ontario in 1947) was one of the founders of the Canadian animation studio, Nelvana Limited, along with Clive A. Smith and Michael Hirsh. He has produced, and executive-produced, much of the company's most memorable fare. - Corus Entertainment is a Canadian media and broadcasting company. Formed in 1999 as a spin-off from Shaw Communications, it is headquartered at Corus Quay in Toronto, Ontario, and has prominent holdings in the radio, publishing, and television industries. Corus Entertainment's voting majority is held by the company's founder JR Shaw and his family, and a 39% stake of Corus stock is owned by Shaw Communications. - An episode is a coherent narrative unit within a larger dramatic work such as a film or television series. An episode is to a sequence as a chapter is to a book. Most are from 20 to 40 minutes in length. - A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. The images in picture books use a range of media such as oil paints, acrylics, watercolor, and pencil, among others. Two of the earliest books with something like the format picture books still retain now were Heinrich Hoffmann's "Struwwelpeter" from 1845 and Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" from 1902. Some of the best-known picture books are Robert McCloskey's "Make Way for Ducklings", Dr. Seuss' "The Cat In The Hat", and Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are". The Caldecott Medal (established 1938) and Kate Greenaway Medal (established 1955) are awarded annually for illustrations in children's literature. From the mid-1960s several children's literature awards include a category for picture books. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'redwall ' with the relationship of 'publication date'. Choices: - 15 - 1845 - 1902 - 1933 - 1947 - 1955 - 1971 - 1977 - 1978 - 1983 - 1986 - 1989 - 1991 - 1993 - 1999 - 20 - 2000 - 2001 - 5 - february 2011
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1999