Note 3: It is interesting that Dreyer, with regard to the view that cartoons will be a better medium than real films for the retelling of Andersen's fairy tales, agrees with Danish silent film's pioneer director, Viggo Larsen, about whom Arnold Hending, among others, writes the following: "[...] Viggo Larsen's lack of hope for a successful outcome of an adventure film was that it was his opinion (long before cartoons were created) that only in cartoons could the right result be achieved. The camera was him, and here he looked basically right, too realistic! " Quoted from Arnold Hending: The film and H.C. Andersen. Kandrup & Wunsch. Copenhagen 1955. I have not been able to determine when Viggo Larsen's statement to Arnold Hending originated, but on October 22, 1956 he was interviewed on tape about his pioneering time in Danish film by people from the Danish Film Museum. But there is a possibility that Viggo Larsen's words about the cartoon as the best medium for adventure films, especially about H.C. Andersen's adventures, may have been inspired by e.g. Dreyer's article from January 1939. It does not sound immediately probable that Viggo Larsen, "long before cartoons were created", should have thought, "that only in cartoons could the right result be achieved." In that case, he must have been even very foresighted, for in 1907 the cartoon medium was largely non-existent, at least not as a genre yet to be reckoned with.

Nordisk Film's 8 minute long feature film "Fyrtøjet" can be found in Arnold Hending: Filmen and H.C.Andersen, page 13ff, and still images from the film can be seen on pages 11 and 13. In Marguerite Engberg: Danish silent film I-II, the silent film "Fyrtøjet" " referred to pages 135, 195 and 200.

For the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that Nordisk Film's H.C. Andersen adventure film no. 3, also shot in 1907, was "Ole Lukøje" or "The Night Before Christians' Birthday". The plot was based on H.C. Andersen's fairy tale comedy "Ole Lukøje", which had been performed for the first time at the Casino on March 1, 1850. The film is mentioned in Arnold Hending: The film and H.C. Andersen, page 14ff. Same place page 15 there is a single still photo from the film, which strangely enough is not even mentioned by Marguerite Engberg. But "Ole Lukøje" was Nordisk Film's final farewell to the production and film adaptation of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales.