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Sunday, June 28, 2009

The Little Match Girl--A Disney/Pixar Film

This weekend is Bede's third annual GoPlay Northwest gaming convention, and while he's come home late at light, Lucia and I are pretty much on our own during the day. School's out, camp hasn't yet begun, so I decided we'd do something we don't normally do: watch movies!

Lucia saw Disney's version of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid for the first time on Friday, and we found this short film on the DVD based on Andersen's The Little Match Girl directed by Roger Allers, with music by Alexander Borodin:



You may read more about the film, including an interview with Roger Allers, in an article by Ron Barbagallo called Shedding Light on the Little Matchgirl. I have written permission from the author to link it here.