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My Favorite Fairy Tales (Sekai Dōwa Anime Zenshū) (1986), an anime television anthology, has a 12-minute adaptation. Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (1987-89) an anime television series based on Grimm's stories, as two half-hour episodes. Funky Fables (Ponkikki Meisaku World) (1988-90), features an adaptation of Cinderella.
The fairy godmother transforms all the mice, lizards, and rats into horses and coachmen for a golden coach, and creates for Cinderella a gown made of gold and silver and slippers made of glass. The only thing her fairy godmother asks is for Cinderella to return home by midnight before the magic ends.
The novel Bound by Donna Jo Napoli is a retelling of the fairy tale. Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story From China, retold by Ai-Ling Louie and illustrated by Ed Young, is well-known children's picture book adaptation of the fairy tale. This retelling was later adapted into an episode of animated anthology series, CBS Storybreak.
The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the late first century BC or early first century AD and is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story. [1] The origins of the fairy-tale figure may be traced back to the 6th-century BC hetaera Rhodopis. [2]
Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, it features supervision by Ben Sharpsteen. The film was directed by Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi.
That worldwide smash has built a vast young audience hungry for stories propelled by power ballads of female empowerment, and it’s clearly that crowd that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-delayed ...
Charles Perrault was born in Paris on 12 January 1628, [3] [4] to a wealthy bourgeois family and was the seventh child of Pierre Perrault (father) and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended very good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and elder brother Jean.
It is based upon the fairy tale Cinderella, particularly the French version Cendrillon, ou la petite pantoufle de verre ("Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper"), by Charles Perrault. The story concerns a young woman forced into a life of servitude by her cruel stepmother and self-centered stepsisters, who dreams of a better life.