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Snow Foolin' · Beat 48 · permalink

Snow

3:42–4:02 Registered 1949

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

Frame at 3:433:43Frame at 3:473:47Frame at 3:513:51Frame at 4:014:01

Play from 3:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 65–74. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
snow (other, exterior) evidence: frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • animated figures in sleighs, wearing winter hats and coats visible
Seen happening
  • Animated sleighs appear on screen with text 'JING-LE BELLS! JING-LE BELLS!' [frame:1]
  • Text on screen reads 'Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse o-pen sleigh.' [frame:2]
  • Sleigh pulled by horse is shown dashing through snow with text 'Dash-ing thro' the snow In a one horse o-pen sleigh,' [frame:3]
  • Text on screen reads 'Mak-ing spi-rits bright, What fun it is to ride and sing' [frame:4]
Also said
“Dashing through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh.” 3:42 · “What fun it is to ride and sing a safe song tonight.” 3:42
Seen
sleigh [frame:3], horse [frame:3], snow [frame:3]
On screen
[{'text': 'JING-LE BELLS! JING-LE BELLS! Jing-le all the way!', 'evidence': 'frame:1'}, {'text': 'Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse o-pen sleigh.', 'evidence': 'frame:2'}, {'text': "Dash-ing thro' the snow In a one horse o-pen sleigh,", 'evidence': 'frame:3'}, {'text': 'Mak-ing spi-rits bright, What fun it is to ride and sing', 'evidence': 'frame:4'}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: festive; themes: holiday, song lyrics, winter travel; style notes: animated, stylized night scene with bold text overlays

The beat shows animated sleighs moving through snow at night, with on-screen text displaying lyrics from 'Jingle Bells'. A voice sings the song's lyrics, matching the text shown.

“Well, jingle, bell, jingle all the way.” 3:42 · “Oh, I thought it was to ride a one-horse open sleigh.” 3:42 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 3:43 (passage 3:42–4:02); US record: No renewal found

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