Note 2: In the article, it again haunts the idea that "Fyrtøjet" should originally have been "only a small 10 Minute Preview". There can hardly be any doubt that the idea of this has been advanced, especially in the light of Richard Møller's failed cartoon version of "Fyrtøjet" from 1939-40, but that it has quickly been abandoned again, for the sole reason that such a project does not would have been profitable, neither at the time in question here, that is, in the autumn of 1942, nor at any later point in time during or after the war and the occupation. Shortly after the premiere of "Fyrtøjet", the author and journalist Knud Overs wrote an article entitled Fyrtøjet som Tegnefilm. H.C. Andersen delivers Synopsis for the first Danish Full-Evening-Color-Cartoon, and in it he states, among other things:

”[…] A meeting was convened between the Master of Literary History, Peter Toubro, stud. mag. Henning Pade and Tegneren Rosenberg. Here it was decided to produce a short film of "Fyrtøjet" on color film. Toubro was given the task of writing the screenplay in collaboration with Henning Pade and with the support of Rosenberg and Johnsen.

It was soon realized, however, that a short film could not be realized, as the subject was too large, and it was then decided to produce an all-night film in color. […] ”

That in 1944 and again in 1945 Henning Dahl Mikkelsen succeeded in producing his two short cartoons with "Ferd'nand", Ferd'nand on a fishing trip and Ferd'nand on a bear hunt, was partly due to the fact that these films were produced at relatively low cost by a very small staff of cartoonists, and partly that the film company ASA paid the production costs. And the background for the production of the two cartoons was that ASA - like American film companies - would use these as pre-films for a couple of the company's farce films, which for the same reason had shorter playing time than usual for feature films at the time. But the 'experiment' did not become a great success, which is why they did not embark on something similar. The time when especially American feature film companies used short cartoons as a magnet, had its heyday in the 1930s and until the early 1940s, but with the loss of the European market during the war, the production of short cartoons - and by the way also of short farce films - unprofitable, which is why several of the companies simply dropped this side of production. However, there was a brief flourishing of the American short entertainment cartoon in the late 1940s and a bit into the 1950s, where i.a. UPA’s short cartoons became huge successes. But then it was over with the short cartoons for the cinemas, and especially after the TV medium had gained worldwide acceptance and among other things. took over the viewing of the short cartoons.