This is intertwined with a similar rabbit couple. Like several other segments of these package films, Once Upon a Wintertime was later released theatrically as an individual short, in this case on September 17, 1954.[7] Clips from the beginning and end of this short showing a horse-drawn sleigh (along with the Carfaces and their blue horses) are featured in Disney's Very Merry Christmas Songs, which is part of Disney's Sing Along Songs, as a background movie for the song "Jingle Bells" (also belonged to the Carfaces and their blue horses).