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The Skeleton Dance 1929 Disney's First Silly Symphony Short Film



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About the Skeleton Dance


Alternative titles (from Letterboxd): Mysterious Melodies, The Spook Dance, Haunted Harmonies, Silly Symphony: The Skeleton Dance


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Description from IMDb: "The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphony animated short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard—a modern film example of medieval European "danse macabre" imagery. It is the first entry in the Silly Symphony series"


Directed by Walt Disney

Story by Walt Disney

Produced by Walt Disney

Music by Carl W. Stalling, Edvard Grieg ("March of the Trolls", from Lyric Suite)

Animation by Ub Iwerks, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson

Layouts by Ub Iwerks

Backgrounds by Ub Iwerks

Production company: Walt Disney Productions

Distributed by Celebrity Productions

Release date: August 22, 1929

Running time: 5:31

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