In early August, Columbia Pictures agreed to distribute the Silly Symphonies, and The Skeleton Dance played as a Columbia release in September at the Roxy, making it the first picture in the theater's history have a return engagement. Directed by Walt Disney. The short was included on the 2001 Walt Disney Treasures DVD box set Silly Symphonies[1] and also appears in the video game Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two as an unlockable short. 3. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute. When night falls at a church cemetery, amidst howling dogs, hooting owls, and fighting cats, four skeletons rise from their graves for macabre merriment. Produced by [1], Variety (July 17, 1929): "Title tells the story, but not the number of laughs included in this sounded cartoon short. It is the first entry in the Silly Symphony series. Silly Symphonies Episode Guide. The final negative cost $5,485.40. If you haven't seen it, it involves, well, skeletons dancing! In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard—a modern film example of medieval European "danse macabre" imagery. 1:30. The Skeleton Dance, released in 1929, was the first in Walt Disney and Carl Stalling's Silly Symphonies series. The Skeleton Dance Not Rated | 1929-08-22 | 6min | In the very first Walt Disney Silly Symphony, this graveyard fantasy comes to life as four skeletons rise from their graves for a night of music and dancing. Being the original and one of the most popular Silly Symphonies, the skeletons have been long associated with the macabre side of Disney. There are plenty of sight gags revolving around the skeletons using various bones and a hapless cat as instruments. May 22, 2020 - Disney We've reached the end of our week of Halfway To Halloween fun. They kick on the slab and a bony arm reaches out to pull them in. I think it has dandy possibilities.” And by the time of the historic opening of Steamboat Willie at the Colony Theatre in mid-November, both Disney and Iwerks were busy working with Stalling to create their pilot. In today’s Disney Doodle, artist Ashley Taylor imagined what this group would do if they had the chance to visit Magic Kingdom Park.. Disney’s “Skeleton Dance” remastered. [5], In order to attract a national distributor for the Silly Symphony series, Walt and Roy Disney arranged for The Skeleton Dance to run at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles and at the Fox Theatre in San Francisco in June 1929, while Pat Powers arranged for it to play at New York's Roxy Theatre from July. Silly Symphony - The Skeleton Dance (1929) - Dailymotion Video It is one of the very first cartoons to feature animation, music and sound in perfect synchronization. I'm still in the Halloween mood and almost every Halloween, the Walt Disney Company seems to showcase one of its earliest black-and-white cartoons, The Skeleton Dance … The Skeleton Dance makes an appearance in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two as one of the projector transition levels. They reappeared later in the year in the Mickey Mouse short Haunted House and would go on to appear in House of Mouse and be given a visual nod in Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor in the underground catacombs sequence. Distributor Skeleton Dance, The (1929) *** 1/2 (out of 4) A Disney Silly Symphony short has four skeletons getting out of their graves to dance, which scares the fur off two black cats. As Disney wrote, “Carl’s idea of the ‘Skeleton Dance’ for a Musical Novelty has been growing on me. All takes place in a graveyard. "[3], The Film Daily (July 21, 1929): "Here is one of the most novel cartoon subjects ever shown on a screen. When the bell rings, bats fly towards the camera. [1] In the film,[2] four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard—a modern film example of medieval European "danse macabre" imagery. During a stopover in Kansas City, Disney paid a visit to his old acquaintance Carl Stalling, then an organist at the Isis Theatre, to compose scores for his first two Mickey shorts, Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho. The black and white animation is called the "skeleton dance", which I did not know existed until this point in time. In depth information about The Skeleton Dance, produced by Walt Disney Studios. This whimsical macabre cartoon features four spooktacular skeletons dancing and rattling along. [1], The origins for The Skeleton Dance can be traced to mid-1928, when Walt Disney was on his way to New York to arrange a distribution deal for his new Mickey Mouse cartoons and to record the soundtrack for his first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie. Music by Cardboard Box Millennium Falcon | Disney DIY by Disney Family Channels. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Skeleton_Dance?oldid=4349135, Part of the animation appeared in the 2007 film. In the video, a group of skeletons come alive as the clock strikes 12, and they dance until the sun comes up. Skeleton Dance, The (film) The first Silly Symphony cartoon; released on August 22, 1929. Other articles where The Skeleton Dance is discussed: Walt Disney: First animated cartoons: …Symphonies with a picture entitled The Skeleton Dance, in which a skeleton rises from the graveyard and does a grotesque, clattering dance set to music based on classical themes. The short (which we’ll show below in its entirety) kicked off Disney’s 10-year Silly Symphonies series. A church at night in a wind storm. Download Cartoon Now Online. As Walt’s daughter Diane Disney Miller recalled, “Father wasn’t easily discouraged. Stalling would eventually join Disney's studio as staff composer. 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