Note 4: The fairy tale "Fyrtøjet" was shot as a "feature film" as early as 1907 by Nordisk Films Kompagni. This was due to the fact that director Ole Olsen felt more or less pressured to produce some "literary" films, primarily based on Holberg's comedies and H.C. Andersen's fairy tales. As a first and foremost businessman, however, Ole Olsen was personally skeptical of the profitability of such film projects, as he did not believe that there would be a paying audience for films of this kind. In addition, he foresaw that almost no matter how one approached the two topics mentioned and translated them into the film medium, there would be derogatory criticism from several leading parties who would agree - albeit with different reasons - that it was not managed to translate Holberg's fine satire or Andersen's poetic prose into film. Nevertheless, Ole Olsen gave permission for the production of what can be sloganically described as the world's first H.C. Andersen film.

Before that, however, Nordisk Film had moved into the fairy tale genre with the film "There was once" (1907), based on the author Holger Drachmann's fairy tale play from 1885 of the same title. Ole Olsen and his hitherto faithful gunman, Viggo Larsen, decided that the fairy tale "Lykkens Kalosker" (“Galoshes of Fortune”, 1838) should be the subject of the very first attempt to make an H.C. Andersen fairy tale film. Unfortunately, this film is not mentioned or mentioned in Marguerite Engberg: Danish silent film I-II, but in return by Arnold Hending: The film and H.C. Andersen, the latter place page 11ff. Hending's book also reproduces two still images from "Lykkens Kalosker", one of which (page 9) is from Viggo Larsen's recording of the fairy tale, while the other (page 21) is from the 1921 remake, which was directed by Gunnar Sommerfeldt. Many years later, in 1993, "Fyrtøjet" was made as a puppet film by the Romanian film director Michail Badica, who especially created a stir with the way he interpreted the fairy tale.