Cartoon for December 31st...ending the year with bells...and a tear-jerker: The Little Match Girl (1937; Columbia/Screen Gems)...a Color Fantasy directed by Sid Marcus. Taken from the famous Hans Christian Andersen short story. A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. Its winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul. Nominated for best cartoon short subject of 1937...which was won by Disneys The Old Mill. NOTE: cartoon ends at 8:21. 2 extra minutes of irrelevant footage is attached in this 8mm copy. https://youtube/watch?v=jNxQcIZ6ji4
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:13:01 +0000
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