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Snow Foolin' · Beat 1 · permalink

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0:00–0:18 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 0:040:04Frame at 0:110:11Frame at 0:150:15Frame at 0:180:18

Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–6. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other)
Seen happening
  • The film title 'Snow Foolin'' is displayed on screen. [frame:1]
  • Credits list Direction by I. Sparber, Animation by Myron Waldman and Gordon Whittier, Story by I. Klein. [frame:2]
  • Same credit text as frame:2 is shown again. [frame:3]
  • Credits list Scenery by Tom Ford, Music by Winston Sharples, Song 'Jingle Bells'. [frame:4]
Seen
film title card, credit card, credit card, credit card
On screen
[{'text': "Snow Foolin'", 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'Direction: I. SPARBER\nAnimation: MYRON WALDMAN\nGORDON WHITTIER\nStory: I. KLEIN', 'frame': 2}, {'text': 'Direction: I. SPARBER\nAnimation: MYRON WALDMAN\nGORDON WHITTIER\nStory: I. KLEIN', 'frame': 3}, {'text': 'Scenery: TOM FORD\nMusic: WINSTON SHARPLES\nSong: "JINGLE BELLS"', 'frame': 4}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: film credits, opening sequence; style notes: Studio-produced credit sequence with static text cards, yellow-on-black typography, and minimal animation (snow effect on title).

The beat shows opening credits for the 1949 film 'Snow Foolin'', listing crew roles and names. No characters or settings are depicted beyond the text on screen.

“Start the day with a song and sing the whole day through.” 0:00 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Snow Foolin' (1949) at 0:04 (passage 0:00–0:18); US record: No renewal found

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