Oswald asks his horse to stretch its neck and sees that Ortensia was telling a Christmas story to 20 kittens.

The house is totally destroyed and Oswald falls from the sky and his butt starts to catch fire and (it had a cut scene) and the film ends.

Mickey's Orphans (1931) is considered a remake of Empty Socks with a similar story line.

[3] In December 2014, an almost complete copy of the film, missing about 30 seconds, was discovered in Mo i Rana, Norway.

The print of Empty Socks was found with a copy of the Oswald cartoon Tall Timber (1928).

The print of Empty Socks belonged to a private individual, before being donated to the collection of the Norwegian Film Institute, which handed over its archive to the National Library of Norway.

[3] On December 17, a digitized version of the recovered nitrate film was shown at the National Library of Norway, along with Tall Timber.