The Little Match Girl (1937 film)
| The Little Match Girl | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Art Davis[1] Sid Marcus[1] |
| Produced by | Charles Mintz[1] |
| Animation by | Emery Hawkins[1] |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation |
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| Country | United States |
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,[3][4] it was directed by Art Davis and Sid Marcus, produced by Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. The majority of the animation was done by Emery Hawkins.[1]
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons)[1][5] but lost to The Old Mill by Disney.[3][6] A short contemporary review in The Film Daily labeled the short as "amateurishly executed".[7] Steve Stanchfield, writing for Cartoon Research in 2016, described it as one of his favorite cartoons and as "surprisingly touching", and admired part of the background art, although criticizing the high amount of dissolve and wipe transitions.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Arnold, Jeremy (2023). Christmas in the Movies (Revised & Expanded ed.). Running Press. ISBN 9780762481057.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1981). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoon Series. Arlington House Publishers. p. 32. ISBN 0870004417.
- ^ a b Pauley, Jim (2024). Columbia Pictures: A Century of Hollywood Motion Picture Magic. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 109.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-winning and Legendary Animators. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 133. ISBN 9781557836717.
- ^ a b Stanchfield, Steve (December 15, 2016). "Columbia's Color Rhapsody "The Little Match Girl" (1937)". Cartoon Research.
- ^ Fleming, Patrick C. (2025). Animating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496855398.
- ^ "The Little Match Girl". The Film Daily. November 16, 1937. p. 17.