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Snow Foolin' · Beat 69 · permalink

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5:32–5:55 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:365:36Frame at 5:465:46Frame at 5:495:49Frame at 5:555:55

Play from 5:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 127–132. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • cartoon penguin wearing a blue hooded coat, holding a coffee cup visible
  • cartoon bird with red head and beak, wearing a brown hat and coat, holding a tray visible, audible
  • cartoon bird with blue head and black body, sitting in a nest visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A penguin buys a coffee from the vendor. [frame:1]
  • A bird in a nest speaks about birds spending winter in Florida. [frame:2]
  • The penguin holds a coffee cup and looks at the bird in the nest. [frame:3]
  • The screen cuts to black. [frame:4]
Seen
coffee cup [frame:3], nest [frame:2], tree branch [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted; themes: winter, consumerism, humor; style notes: flat color backgrounds, simple character designs, medium close-ups on characters

A cartoon penguin buys coffee from a vendor while another bird comments on winter travel costs. The scene ends with a black screen.

“Hot coffee. Get your hot coffee. Oh, one coffee, please. One coffee. Coming up.” 5:33 · “Uh, I thought all birds spent the winter in Florida. Oh, dear, at these prices, who can afford Florida?” 5:42 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 5:36 (passage 5:32–5:55); US record: No renewal found

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