A family has a sick woman at home. Her girl goes out in the snow to beg.A family has a sick woman at home. Her girl goes out in the snow to beg.A family has a sick woman at home. Her girl goes out in the snow to beg.
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- TriviaGeorges Méliès (the film's director) reportedly filmed two different endings for this film. The first ending depicts the beggar girl freezing to death on the street, and then her soul entering heaven. And a second (and more famous) ending where the beggar is rescued by a wealthy couple, who then resolve her family's financial problems. The first ending was reserved for French audiences, and the second version for American audiences. Film historians consider this as evidence that American film audiences in the 1900s already had a reputation for preferring happy endings over tragic endings.
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I Was Moved by This
I'm a sucker for Christmas movies (the good ones). This is a simple story, but it grabbed me. I grew up quite poor and Christmas wasn't always the greatest time of the year. We faced problems with money and living conditions. Of course, nothing to compare to this family. With a very ill wife, the father sends his daughter out to the churchyard to beg. The people are mean spirited and push her away. When she goes to the bakers, she is thrown out. The only person who is willing to help her is a poor man who cleans the streets. She nearly dies until there is a kind of divine intervention. Yes it's simplistic but effective. The version I watched also had a really interesting piece of music superimposed. It was so haunting.
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- Hitchcoc
- Nov 15, 2017
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- El ángel de Navidad
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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