The Little Match Girl (1937 film)

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 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
Release date	November 5, 1937 (1937-11-05)[2]
Country	United States

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]