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The Little Match Girl (1937)

The Little Match Girl poster
Directed by
Sid Marcus, Arthur Davis
Genre
drama film, Christmas film
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A poor little girl tries to sell matches on a freezing winter evening. She lights matches for warmth and sees visions of a better life.

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What happens

The Little Match Girl is a 1937 animated short film adapting Hans Christian Andersen's 1845 literary fairytale The Little Match Girl. Part of the Color Rhapsody series, it was directed by Art Davis and Sid Marcus, produced by Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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