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The Little Match Girl

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A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's 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.

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  • short film

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical5 Nov 1937

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The Little Match Girl was released on 5 November 1937.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/30/2025

    7/10

    There’s something distinctly Dickensian about this short animation. It’s all about a young girl who makes her living selling matches on the wintry streets of New York on New Year’s Eve. Ignored by the revellers, she retreats to take what shelter she can beside a grand house where she lights some of her matches to try and keep warm. Each match offers a little light and heat and soon she drifts off into dreams of a roa…

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