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Released
1937 · FILM

The Little Match Girl

Directed by
Runtime
8 min
AnimationFamily

Synopsis

A young girl survives by selling matches on the streets of New York during the winter. Passersby either ignore her or treat her rudely. Seeking shelter from the cold, she lights a match, but it is blown out. This happens twice more, and on the third attempt, she falls into a dream. In the dream, cherubs care for her, giving her a new doll and a new dress, and place her on a throne. A storm then approaches, and she moves toward a candle, which is extinguished. In reality, her match is also put out, marking the end of her life. An angel appears and takes her soul.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 10

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by George WinklerScored by Joe Denat

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