Based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale of a little homeless girl trying to sell matches to an indifferent crowd of passerbys. As night falls, she sits in the snow with only a handful of matches and remembers happier times past.
Released: 2006
Language: no dialogue
Style: 2D animation
Based on: the story by Hans Christian Andersen
Of Interest: The last of a series of shorts highlighting international music that were spawned by Fantasia 2000. The other short films were Oscar nominees, Destino and Lorenzo, as well as the short One-by-One. The film is animated to the music of String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: Third Movement: Noturno (Andante) by Alexander Borodin. The short is included as an extra on the 2-Disc Platinum Edition of The Little Mermaid.
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