The Little Match Seller
1902 British film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Little Match Seller is a 1902 British short silent drama film, directed by James Williamson, retelling the classic 1845 Hans Christian Andersen fable of the sad life and tragic death of a little match seller. This major fiction film of the period was, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "a serious attempt at depicting a person's inner emotional life on film through purely visual means (there is no onscreen text of any kind), using trick effects not to provoke laughter but for serious dramatic reasons."[1][2] It is one of the oldest surviving silent films.
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The Little Match Seller | |
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Directed by | James Williamson |
Written by | Hans Christian Andersen |
Cinematography | James Williamson |
Production company | Williamson Kinematograph Company |
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Running time | 3 mins 15 secs |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
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