Once Upon a Wintertime

Once Upon a Wintertime is an animated short from the film Melody Time. It was reissued as a stand-alone short on September 17, 1954.
==Synopsis==
A December valentine features the memories of a romantic couple in their courting days. Joe tries to show off for Jenny on the ice, but events soon turn to a possible tragedy and a timely rescue.
==Plot==
In the wintertime, a couple goes on a sleigh ride throughout the winter while two rabbits and two bluebirds join them on their sleigh. Arriving for a stop, Joe takes his love interest Jenny to go ice-skating with the other ice-skaters. Joe and Jenny go ice-skating across the frozen lake as the two fall in love. Skating deep into the forest, Jenny then gets upset with Joe and leaves him (the female rabbit also gets upset with the male rabbit, just like what Jenny did to Joe). Joe wants to get Jenny's attention but she refuses.
Both Joe and Jenny disagree with each other as Jenny passes by a sign covered in snow. The rabbit's love interest follows and bumps into the sign, knocking the snow off and revealing that the sign reads "DANGER THIN ICE". The rabbit tries to direct Jenny's attention to the warning sign, but she along with the rabbit's love interest ignore him. Upset that neither of them is paying attention to him, he angrily stabs the ice with the sign out of frustration, which causes the ice to crack and split into several icebergs, with Jenny and the girl rabbit stranded on one of them. Joe and the boy rabbit notice their love interests are in danger so the two attempt to rescue her. Jenny almost falls over a waterfall, but the horses, squirrels, and bluebirds work together to rescue the two in danger. Reuniting Joe and Jenny together along with the rabbits, both fall in love as they ride on their sleigh together. Joe and Jenny bid a farewell to the woodland creatures as the two sleigh happily together.
==Characters==
*Jenny
*Joe
==Lyrics==
==Releases (standalone)==
===Television===
*The Mickey Mouse Club - December 27, 1956
*Disneyland, episode #4.22: "Magic and Music"
*Disney Time - December 26, 1975
*A Disney Christmas Gift
*A Disney Channel Christmas
===Home Video===
*A Walt Disney Christmas (VHS)
==Trivia==
*Footage from this short film was used in the Disney Sing Along Songs volume Very Merry Christmas Songs for the song "Jingle Bells".
*The scene where Joe skates a pair of hearts struck by an arrow on the ice represented Melody Time in the finale segment of Wonderful World of Animation.
*The majority of this short was featured as the final music video of Disney DTV Valentine, set to Whitney Houston's "You Give Good Love".
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
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===Merchandise===
Once Upon a Wintertime Limited Release Sketchbook Ornament - December 2016.jpg|Once Upon a Wintertime Limited Release Sketchbook Ornament - December 2016
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Category:1948 shorts
Category:Melody Time
Category:Animated shorts
Category:Melody Time segments
Category:Valentine's Day