What was released first, Crumb or The King of Kong
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Title: King Kong
Passage: King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling a giant ape, that has appeared in various media since 1933.  The character first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" from RKO Pictures, which received universal acclaim upon its initial release and re-releases.  A sequel quickly followed that same year with "The Son of Kong", featuring Little Kong.  In the 1960s, Toho produced "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1962), pitting a much larger Kong against Toho's own Godzilla, and "King Kong Escapes" (1967), based on "The King Kong Show" (1966–1969) from Rankin/Bass Productions.  In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis produced a modern remake of the original film directed by John Guillermin.  A sequel, "King Kong Lives", followed a decade later featuring a Lady Kong.  Another remake of the original, this time set in 1933, was released in 2005 from filmmaker Peter Jackson.
Title: Crumb (film)
Passage: Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist Robert Crumb (R. Crumb) and his family.  Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn O'Donnell, it won widespread acclaim.  It was released in the USA on April 28, 1995, having been screened at film festivals the previous year.  Jeffery M. Anderson (later critic for the "San Francisco Examiner") placed the film on his list of the ten greatest films of all time, labeling it "the greatest documentary ever made."
Title: King Kong Escapes
Passage: King Kong Escapes (released in Japan as Counterattack of King Kong (キングコングの逆襲 , Kingu Kongu no Gyakushū ) , is a 1967 Japanese-American science-fiction "kaiju" film featuring King Kong, co-produced by Toho and Rankin/Bass.  The film is directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and stars Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with Haruo Nakajima as King Kong and Yū Sekida as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus.  The film was a loose adaptation of the Rankin/Bass Saturday morning cartoon series "The King Kong Show" and was the second and final Japanese-produced film featuring King Kong.  "King Kong Escapes" was released in Japan on July 22, 1967 and released in the United States on June 19, 1968.
Title: Tragic Hero (film)
Passage: Tragic Hero (Cantonese Yale: Ying hung ho hon) is a 1987 Hong Kong action-crime film directed by Taylor Wong, and starring Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat and Alex Man.  The film is the sequel to "Rich and Famous" but was released first due to its appeal as an action film.
Title: Gratitude (band)
Passage: Gratitude was formed in 2003 by Mark Weinberg (originally of the band Crumb) and Thomas Becker (originally of the Get Up Kids).  Initially called the Collision, the band was joined by Bob Lindsey on bass and Robby Cronholm (also formerly of Crumb) on vocals.  After touring in 2002 with New End Original, which featured Far alum Jonah Matranga and Jeremy Tappero, Cronholm left the band and was replaced by Matranga.  When Matranga joined, the band changed their name from the Collision to Gratitude.  After picking up Matranga and changing their name, Gratitude signed to Atlantic Records.  The group picked up Tappero as second guitarist before going into the studio.  After Becker left the band in the middle of recording the record, Drummer David Jarnstrom joined the band before the release of their self-titled debut album (Becker and other session musicians fulfilled the drum role during the recording of the album).  Atlantic Records released "Gratitude" on March 8, 2005.  The tracks "Drive Away" and "This Is the Part", were released as singles and received significant radio play both in the US and the UK.  Gratitude's first tour for the album was a North American tour supporting Jimmy Eat World (to whom the band has often been compared), and they were also on the bill for the 2005 Warped Tour and a leg of the 2005 Taste of Chaos.
Title: Kong: The Animated Series
Passage: Kong: The Animated Series was an American-Canadian television series for children that follows King Kong, the monster of the 1933 film of the same name.  "Kong" was created to compete with "", and first aired on BKN in 2000.  In May 2001, Fox Kids began airing reruns of the first 13 episodes.  Then, Jetix began airing reruns on September 9, 2005, as a prelude to the release of Peter Jackson's "King Kong".  Additionally, two direct-to-DVD movies based on the series were released: "Kong: King of Atlantis", where Kong fights to save the mythic island from a vicious snake sorceress (and which also contains three musical numbers; the only Kong film to do so) in 2005 and "Kong: Return to the Jungle", where poachers capture Kong and other animals from his island to sell to a zoo, in 2007.
Title: Chris van Abkoude
Passage: Chris van Abkoude (6 November 1880, Rotterdam – 2 January 1960, Portland, Oregon) was a Dutch writer and novelist of mostly children's books.  He wrote the "series of Pietje Bell novels" from 1914 to 1936 and many books in between.  He moved to the United States in 1916 and wrote all the "Pietje Bell" books in the United States, except for the first one, which he wrote in 1914 in Rotterdam.  In 1923 Abkoude wrote the novel "Kruimeltje" ("Little Crumb") and in 1999 the film "Little Crumb" was released.  Before his writing career, Van Abkoude was a teacher; when he noticed the children did not like reading the children's books of the time, he wrote his own.
Title: Donkey Kong Country Returns
Passage: Donkey Kong Country Returns is a side-scrolling platformer video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii console.  The game was released first in North America in November 2010, and in PAL regions and Japan the following month.  A stereoscopic port of the game, titled Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in May 2013, and in Japan the following month.
Title: BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma
Passage: BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, released in Japan as BlazBlue: Chronophantasma (ブレイブルー クロノファンタズマ , BureiBurū Kuronofantazuma ) , is a 2-D fighting game developed by Arc System Works.  It is the third game of the Blazblue series, set after the events of "".  The game was originally to be released first as an arcade game in the early fourth quarter of 2012, which was later pushed forward to November 2012.  A PlayStation 3 version of the game was released in Japan on October 24, 2013, while it was released in the United States on March 25, 2014.  Due to limited hardware and disc space the game was not released on the Xbox 360.  An updated version of the game titled BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend (ブレイブルー クロノファンタズマ エクステンド , BureiBurū: Kuronofantazuma Ekusutendo , BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend) , dubbed as BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma 2.0 (ブレイブルー クロノファンタズマ ２.０ , BureiBurū: Kuronofantazuma 2.0 , BlazBlue: Chronophantasma 2.0) in the Arcade version, was originally released for Arcades in October 2014, and for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in April 2015.  It was released on June 30, 2015 in North America, with the European region version releasing on October 23, 2015.
Title: The King of Kong
Passage: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film.  Highlighting the popular 1981 arcade game "Donkey Kong", it follows Steve Wiebe in his attempts to take the world high score for the arcade game from Billy Mitchell, whom the film presents as reigning champion.  The film premiered January 22, 2007, at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival and has been shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival, the SXSW Film Festival, the TriBeCa Film Festival, the True/False Film Festival, the Aspen Comedy Festival, and the Fantasia Festival.  The film opened in limited release in the United States on August 17, 2007 in five theaters, and by September 9, 2007, the film had expanded to 39 theaters in the U.S.
Crumb (film) The King of Kong